down tools
UKto refuse to continue working, especially because you are not satisfied with your pay or working conditions:
The printers are threatening to down tools if the pay offer is not increased to eight percent.
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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