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work stoppage

noun

  1. the collective stoppage of work by employees in a business or an industry to protest working conditions.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of work stoppage1

First recorded in 1940–45
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This work stoppage marked SAG-AFTRA’s second video game strike in less than a decade and second overall strike in roughly a year.

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Then several hundred men who had called for the work stoppage were rounded up and held without bail in a specially built “stockade.”

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For now, the baseball world can only wait and wonder, hoping the Dodgers’ disproportionate spending won’t contribute to another elongated work stoppage.

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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.

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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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