industrial action

American  

noun

Chiefly British.

1. job action.

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industrial action British  

noun

1. any action, such as a strike or go-slow, taken by employees in industry to protest against working conditions, redundancies, etc

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Example Sentences

With funding only expected to go up by less than 1% next year, can health workers be confident they will be awarded a pay rise without threats of industrial action?

From BBC

Birmingham City Council said it would be going ahead with a new waste collection regime in the summer, even if industrial action continued.

From BBC

There were now 275 union members taking industrial action as opposed to 370 at the beginning of 2025, which it said was "mainly due to VR."

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Waste collections had improved in recent months, although recycling has been suspended since industrial action began.

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"June of this year, whether or not industrial action continues, we will be rolling out a recycling service back again across the city and introducing a food recycling service," he said.

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