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job action

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as in sit-down

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Recent Examples of job action The pilots’ job action was in protest of the Belgian government’s reforms to federal pensions. — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025 The order also directed an investigation of the job action, which was a violation of the Taylor Law barring certain state employees from striking. — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2025 The National Union of Healthcare Workers said that nearly 2,400 mental health workers had launched their job action after Kaiser management had turned down proposals that the union said would stanch employee turnover and improve care. — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024 The job action shut down the entirety of New Jersey Transit’s rail service, from the foothills of the Shawangunk Mountains in New York to Atlantic City — including, most notably, trains into and out of Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan. — Dan Barry, New York Times, 18 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for job action

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Ahead of the sit-down dinner and ceremony, guests such as Storm Reid, Christine Quinn, Jurnee Smollett, and Lukas Gage trickled in from the rainy outdoors over an hour or so, greeted inside with Casamigos cocktails, filet mignon canapés, and more.

— Jamila Stewart, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
News in the sit-down, which was recorded on March 15.

— Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2023

Definition of sit-down

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In March 2023, UTLA staged a sympathy strike, joining the three-day walkout of Local 99 of Service Employees International Union.

— Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
The California Nurses Association had announced plans to hold a sympathy strike in solidarity.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 18 Mar. 2026

Definition of sympathy strike

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That puts more pressure on new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh and his colleagues, a dissent-happy bunch over the past year, to consider whether a slowdown in jobs or an uptick in inflation is the bigger risk to the economy.

— Jake Angelo, semafor.com, 2 July 2026
Michelle Monaghan is making midlife look less like a slowdown and more like a second wind.

— Mara Santilli, Flow Space, 2 July 2026

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