industrial action

The activities of trade unions, or groups of workers or employers, to bring pressure on the others when negotiations and/or arbitration have failed to settle industrial disputes. Action by workers can include go-slows or ‘working to rule’, overtime bans, or strike action. Strikes may be accompanied by picketing to persuade other workers to join the strike, or to persuade other people not to make deliveries to or purchases from the firm. Industrial action by employers may involve lockouts.

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Industrial action (UK) or job action (US) refers collectively to any measure taken by trade unions or other organised labour meant to reduce productivity in a workplace. Specifically industrial action may include one or more of the following:

strike go-slow work-to-rule general strike slowdown overtime ban