industrial action
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industrial action
noun industrial actions
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A workplace protest by employees designed to inconvenience or disrupt the business of the employer.
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.
Similar: job action, labor action
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noun workplace protest
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Talk about this word "industrial action." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/industrial%20action. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. industrial action. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/industrial%20action "industrial action." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/industrial%20action.Cite this
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title = {industrial action},
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