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词汇 go-slow
释义 go-slow
noun[ Cusually singular ]
UKuk /ˈɡəʊ.sləʊ/ us /ˈɡoʊ.sloʊ/(USslowdown)
an occasion when employees work more slowly and with less effort than usual in order to try to persuade an employer to agree to higher pay or better working conditions(为了迫使雇主答应加薪或改善工作条件等要求而进行的)怠工
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go-slow | Business English


go-slow
noun[ S ]
 HR, WORKPLACE UKukus(USslowdown)
a situation when employees work more slowly and less effectively to show management that they are not satisfied with pay, working conditions, etc.:
a go-slow/action/protest

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It hardly needs to be added that this is cast-iron evidence of the suppressed demand that was damped down during the go-slow period.
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What the general public want to know is whether the go-slow is going to start at midnight to-night.
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For example, a go-slow would be in breach of a contract of employment and would be industrial action.
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I need hardly underline that the go-slow has already cost this nation, probably, hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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This is not a go-slow or a work-to-rule.
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Although there are unresolved issues, there is no official dispute and no official support for a go-slow.
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If there is an unofficial strike, or if there is a go-slow activity (if that is not a paradox), it causes publicity.
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I refer to the recent power workers' go-slow.
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Is there somewhere a kind of go-slow policy?
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As a result of the "go-slow", about a thousand patients are now waiting for the fitment of artificial limbs instead of the normal 350.
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I describe myself, and have done for many years, as a go-slow federalist.
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First, there was a sort of ex-cathedra pronouncement that the work-to-rule or go-slow does not involve a breach of contract of employment.
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I would not say that the trade union movement was devoid of powers to discipline members on a go-slow.
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Each year we have a confrontation, the threat to strike, the "go-slow", the overtime ban, the work to rule.
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My warnings about the sellers' market vanishing, the rising costs in production, restrictive practices, and threats of strikes and go-slow action were all brushed aside.
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