How to Use industrial action in a Sentence

industrial action

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  • The strikes are the latest in a wave of industrial action in the United Kingdom this year.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
  • And this summer it has been hit by a long run of industrial action.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Even so, 77% of train drivers joined the first day of industrial action.
    — The Economist, 7 Apr. 2018
  • December’s wave of industrial action is expected to be the largest in the UK since the late 1980s.
    — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Fully 77% of train drivers went on strike on the first day of industrial action in early April, well above the current rate.
    — The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • The planned industrial action comes less than a month after Lufthansa scrapped at least 1,200 flights due to strikes at its main Frankfurt and Munich hubs.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The industrial action is the second of its kind in a month, a rare display of public discontent in the UAE where there is tight control on workers.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim and Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 11 May 2022
  • Job actions are not unusual in Britain, but the country hasn’t seen this kind of explosion of industrial action, in so many walks of life, in decades.
    — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Thursday marks the first day of a three-month wave of industrial action by rail workers, who will strike on two out of every five days between April and June, and plan more than 100 marches.
    — Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Jim Bittermann, CNN, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The industrial action has lost some steam and the protests have rallied thinner crowds in past weeks compared with the more-than 1 million-strong numbers seen earlier in the movement.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The airline is seeking an injunction Tuesday in the High Court to halt industrial action.
    — Washington Post, 22 July 2019
  • Post and rail workers across the country have also voted in favor of industrial action over pay.
    — Wired, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Philippe renewed the pledge to overhaul swathes of the French economy with unions planning to continue industrial action on the rail network through June.
    — Helene Fouquet, Bloomberg.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • At the time, the labor union Verdi organized the industrial action to secure a 12.5% pay bump as well as a lump-sum inflation payout.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 12 Mar. 2024
  • When industrial action happens in Calais, lorries back up in Kent.
    — Georgina Voss, The Atlantic, 20 June 2018
  • That’s unleashed the biggest wave of industrial action in the country in decades as workers across the economy see their living standards plunge.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Workers across France are striking as part of a national wave of industrial action, that has seen protests against reforms to the state pension system.
    — Heather Connolly, Quartz, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The power of unions has already been rolled back; academics describe the laws governing British industrial action as already the strictest in Europe.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Outside of healthcare, rail workers, border staff and postal workers have all engaged in industrial action in the U.K. in recent months.
    — Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Calling a strike isn’t a straightforward move in the U.K. Before any industrial action can be held, the union must hold a postal vote with a majority of members supporting a strike.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
  • The industrial action illustrates the mounting fears across generations that people will have to work longer for less.
    — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Meanwhile, swathes of office staff will be forced to work from home today as widespread industrial action closes schools and cripples Britain’s rail network.
    — Leonard Kehnscherper, Bloomberg.com, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Record inflation of more than 10% has driven a summer of widespread strikes, but industrial action at the Royal Mail and by railway workers planned for Friday was canceled in light of the queen’s death.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2022
  • In December the urban poor in the provinces took to the streets, denouncing theocracy. Despite efforts to quell it, industrial action rages on.
    — The Economist, 17 May 2018
  • Meanwhile, labor unions offered some respite from a recent wave of industrial action.
    — Anna Cooban and Mark Thompson, CNN, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Talks on Monday between unions and Government ministers failed to avert the strike action, with industrial action also in the pipeline by teachers and rail staff.
    — Bloomberg.com, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The strikes are just the latest in a wave of industrial action in Germany, famed for its strong legal protections for workers, and follow walkouts by train drivers in January over wages.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The Verdi labor group called for members to take part in industrial action at Lufthansa’s German airport bases, a move that could see check-in personnel and other staff walk out over pay and conditions.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2022
  • The industrial action that has engulfed major factories across the country cast a tough challenge to Mr. Lukashenko, who had relied on blue-collar workers as his core support base.
    — Yuras Karmanau, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Weighing on growth in January was strike action by junior doctors, which contributed to the highest number of days lost to industrial action since September.
    — Andrew Atkinson, Fortune Europe, 13 Mar. 2024

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