industrial actionnoun [ U ]
uk/ɪnˌdʌs.tri.əl ˈæk.ʃən/us/ɪnˌdʌs.tri.əl ˈæk.ʃən/an occasion when workers do something that is intended to force an employer to agree to something, especially by stopping work:
Workers at the plant are threatening industrial action.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Industrial action
- abstain
- blackleg
- cooling-off period
- demarcation dispute
- direct action
- lightning strike
- lock
- lock sb out
- lockout
- pay claim
- picket
- picket line
- strike
- strike pay
- strikebreaker
- sympathy
- walk
- walk out
- walkout
- wildcat strike
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