industrial action

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industrial action (countable and uncountable, plural industrial actions)

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

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