How to Use job action in a Sentence

job action

noun
  • The union has threatened a job action if wages are not increased.
  • If the union doesn’t get its demands satisfied and undertakes a job action, who will this help?
    — Alan J. Borsuk, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2018
  • The union, at the time, said the issues were not due to any official or unofficial job action.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Getting dressed for that kind of on-the-job action was a tricky business that began with scholarly research.
    — Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Over the years, airline workers have conducted job actions that fell short of a strike but disrupted flights anyway.
    — CBS News, 13 May 2023
  • The reality is that our students and families will feel the impact of any job action that our teachers might take.
    — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The recent figures don't compare to 20th century job actions, of course.
    — Daniela Sirtori-Cortina, CNN, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The movement began with job actions in West Virginia earlier this year.
    — Dana Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • But the job action by dozens of mechanics is beginning to reverberate.
    — Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The picket lines, which do not represent a strike or other job action, are scheduled for each of the next three weeks at American.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Nevertheless, such assurance that the vaccine mandate didn’t cause a job action here hasn’t been enough to sway everyone.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The players, while having taken job action, were not and are not in a legal strike position under Ontario labor law.
    — Asif Burhan, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Germany’s powerful service-workers’ union has held a number of job actions over pay and working conditions in recent years.
    — Heather Haddon, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
  • The job action is coming on the heels of a three-day strike by Dedham teachers that ended this week with the ratification of a new contract.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The pilots’ job action was in protest of the Belgian government’s reforms to federal pensions.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025
  • However, Shindle said the union has been speaking with members on tour and readying them for the possibility of a job action.
    — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The series of recent job actions began in West Virginia, where teachers won a 5% raise after shutting down schools for nine days.
    — Washington Post, latimes.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Controllers are prohibited from joining organized job actions like strikes by federal law.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The job action will be, at least at first, a work-to-rule strike at all airports, land borders, commercial shipping ports, postal facilities, and headquarters.
    — Minnah Arshad, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2021
  • So far the union has not announced any further job actions, although Fain is set to brief the membership in a video appearance Friday morning.
    — Dylan Lovan, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Savage told the Free Press on Thursday that the unions did not intentionally plan a job action when the border was set to reopen.
    — Sam Fogel, Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 2021
  • This is the second time in seven years that Chicago teachers have gone on strike, and the job action comes amid a resurgence of teacher activism that has swept states from coast to coast over the last two years.
    — Moriah Balingit, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
  • At the same time, the long-running job action is creating increasing economic difficulties for some writers and actors and the support staffs that work with them.
    — Erica Werner, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The lost hammered Southwest Ohio’s five systems, which closed offices and imposed wage cuts, furloughs, workweek cutbacks and other job actions to stem the drain.
    — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 4 May 2020
  • Powerful groups usually hold their fire for a while when a new leader takes charge of the city's schools, but the unions representing teachers and administrators are staging job actions and protests right away.
    — Shelby Grad, latimes.com, 25 May 2018
  • That job action, like the iconic national Pullman strike a year earlier, was triggered by economic hardship and poor working conditions.
    — Phil Primack, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2019
  • There remains the possibility that unions will ramp up pressure on the supermarket chains by staging various job actions, such as asking customers to boycott certain stores.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2019
  • The job action was short-lived as the village and police union reached a tentative agreement and planned to work on negotiating a new contract to replace one that had lapsed in 2020.
    — Mike Nolan, chicagotribune.com, 31 Dec. 2021
  • In one infamous incident, the union orchestrated a surprise job action on a day that a Rikers inmate was scheduled to testify against two guards accused of assault.
    — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2017
  • The workers are not airline workers and therefore are not subject to the mediation and slow path to job actions provided by the Railway Labor Act.
    — Ted Reed, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024

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