| 词汇 | industrial-action |
| 释义 | industrial action noun[ U ] uk /ɪnˌdʌs.tri.əl ˈæk.ʃən/ us /ɪnˌdʌs.tri.əl ˈæk.ʃən/ an occasion when workers do something that is intended to force an employer to agree to something, especially by stopping work: 劳工行动（尤指罢工） threaten industrial actionWorkers at the plant are threatening industrial action.工厂的工人正在威胁要进行劳工行动。 Industrial action abstain anti-strike blackleg cooling-off period demarcation dispute lightning strike lock lock someone out lockout on strikephrase picket stoppage strike pay strikebound strikebreaker strikebreaking striker sympathy union-bashing walk industrial action | Business Englishindustrial action noun[ U ] HR UKukus(USjob action) actions by workers, especially the action of stopping work, that are intended to force an employer to agree to something: Of the 1,000 employees at the plant, 55 per cent voted not to take industrial action. call for/organize/threaten industrial action call off/avert/avoid industrial action The car manufacturer is facing a threat of industrial action over plans to reduce pension benefits. Examples of industrial actionindustrial action Doctors can - and do - shrug such reports away, saying that a few will suffer in every such industrialaction. The doctors conclude that they have no option except industrialaction to ensure corrective action. In another company where a union had existed, industrialaction by workers caused the owner to ban the union and dismiss its leaders. Public dissent over the new tax system culminated in a spate of demonstrations and industrialaction throughout the country. The union membership supported the nationwide industrialaction that brought government services to a halt. Indeed, wage competition and glaring disparities in working conditions not only quickened labour mobility but also provoked industrialaction. These sick individuals are, in no way, concerned with the matters that provoke industrialaction. The wider scale of labour organisation and industrialaction immeasurably complicated the jobber's task. Such industrialaction often threatened the entire law and order machineries in the mill towns. Thus, to say that nurses have often resorted to industrialaction because they were not professionalized is only trivially true. Usually, the mere threat of industrialaction on the part of doctors is sufficient to resolve the situation. They also extended strikes beyond the confinement of factories and mounted wider industrialaction to avoid dealing with the management of a single factory. It should be remembered that industrialaction is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end. The strike appears to have been fairly solid with only the printers' union ignoring calls for industrialaction. The nurse's role as patient advocate is problematic but can be seen to justify industrialaction taken over concern for quality of care. See all examples of industrial action These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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