How to Use industrial action in a Sentence

industrial action

noun
  • And this summer it has been hit by a long run of industrial action.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Bae does not expect such industrial action to be a one-off event.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 23 May 2026
  • When truck sales are rising, that can be a sign of growing industrial action.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Even so, 77% of train drivers joined the first day of industrial action.
    — The Economist, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Post and rail workers across the country have also voted in favor of industrial action over pay.
    — Wired, 5 Aug. 2022
  • EVs were even a pain point during last year's auto worker industrial action.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024
  • Other unions are also gearing up for fresh industrial action.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Meanwhile, labor unions offered some respite from a recent wave of industrial action.
    — Anna Cooban and Mark Thompson, CNN, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The strikes are the latest in a wave of industrial action in the United Kingdom this year.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
  • When industrial action happens in Calais, lorries back up in Kent.
    — Georgina Voss, The Atlantic, 20 June 2018
  • Walkouts continued despite the announcement last week of a deal which the group hoped would resolve the industrial action.
    — Max Ramsay, Bloomberg, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The industrial action illustrates the mounting fears across generations that people will have to work longer for less.
    — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Forty-four percent of respondents backed the industrial action, up from 38 percent two weeks earlier.
    — Helene Fouquet, Bloomberg.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Labor unions strongly oppose the provisions on strikes, which require a higher turnout for local level unions to be able to decide on industrial action.
    — Derek Gatopoulos, The Seattle Times, 15 Jan. 2018
  • British nurses and ambulance workers plan to go on strike next month, following three days of industrial action in December.
    — Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • The calendar below depicts the chaos, but may not show the true extent of upcoming industrial action as unions continue to formulate plans.
    — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Workers started industrial action at all three Inpex facilities last week, downing tools for four hours a day among other measures.
    — Sing Yee Ong, Bloomberg, 8 June 2026
  • 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
  • The airline warned that the financial fallout from the industrial action could jeopardize the company’s survival.
    — Benjamin Katz, WSJ, 4 July 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
  • Workers at two large natural-gas plants run by Chevron in Australia began industrial action Friday.
    — WSJ, 8 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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

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