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work stoppage
noun
the collective stoppage of work by employees in a business or an industry to protest working conditions.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of work stoppage1
Example Sentences
This work stoppage marked SAG-AFTRA’s second video game strike in less than a decade and second overall strike in roughly a year.
Then several hundred men who had called for the work stoppage were rounded up and held without bail in a specially built “stockade.”
For now, the baseball world can only wait and wonder, hoping the Dodgers’ disproportionate spending won’t contribute to another elongated work stoppage.
It accuses UC of unlawfully imposing “draconian” restrictions on where workers can picket and retaliating against some employees at UC San Francisco who participated in a two-day work stoppage in November.
The strike, which began in mid-November, had been the first open-ended work stoppage in more than two decades for Nevada’s largest union.
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