0 a form of protest in which employees do exactly what is stated in their contracts, and nothing more, in order to slow down production : --
2 a situation in which employees only do as much work as their contracts say they must do, as a way of showing that they are unhappy about pay, conditions, etc., but do not strike (= stop working completely): --
Those will not be the usual industrial practices, like the go-slow or the work-to-rule.
Was it not a fact that there was a go-slow or a work-to-rule before the lockout?
This little matter of the work-to-rule is the last straw which has brought matters to boiling point.
First, there has been a work-to-rule by telephonists.
What information has she about the number and proportion of consultants who are participating in the work-to-rule?
Had there been no work-to-rule at that time, demand could probably have been met with voltage reductions only.
Is it not true that this is not so much a work-to-rule as a deliberate attempt to disrupt the life and industry of the country?
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.