How to Use industrial action in a Sentence

industrial action

noun

• 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
• 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
• Overall, the industrial action has seen more than 1.3 million appointments delayed, putting extra strain on hospitals already battling lengthy waiting lists.
  — Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024