单词 | black ban |
释义 | > as lemmasblack ban black ban n. Australian and New Zealand a prohibition which prevents work from proceeding, usually imposed by a trade union as a form of industrial action. ΚΠ 1970 K. F. Walker Austral. Industr. Relations Syst. vii. 224 The Broken Hill unions have employed all the various forms [of direct action]: strike, go-slow, black ban, [etc.]. 1996 Sunday News (Auckland) (Nexis) 27 Oct. 19 Fire and progress almost ended the life of the theatre, but thanks to a union black ban which held up demolition and a multi-million dollar refit by local property developers, the Regent was saved. 2006 T. Bramston Wran Era App. 292 A two-year black ban by the Transport Workers Union starting in October 1976 torpedoed the pilot Regional Freight Centre at Tamworth. < as lemmas |
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