industrial action

English

Noun

industrial action (countable and uncountable, plural industrial actions)

1. (chiefly UK, Ireland, labour) A workplace protest by employees designed to inconvenience or disrupt the business of the employer.

   Synonyms: (US) job action, labor action

   Coordinate terms: industrial peace, lockout

   • 2019 November 6, Robert Drysdale, “Wires offer boost to Borders revival”, in Rail, page 42:

     Furthermore, overdue training of crew on the new Class 385 electrics, compounded by industrial action, meant that announcements of train cancellations "due to a member of the train crew being unavailable" became very familiar to passengers across east central Scotland.

Hyponyms

• general strike
• go-slow
• overtime ban
• slowdown
• stayaway
• stayout
• strike
• walkout
• work-to-rule

Translations

workplace protest

• Finnish: työtaistelu (fi)
• German: Arbeitskampf (de) m
• Scottish Gaelic: stailc f
• Swedish: stridsåtgärd (sv) c

Further reading

• industrial action on Wikipedia.Wikipedia