0 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 --
1 a situation when employees work more slowly and less effectively to show management that they are not satisfied with pay, working conditions, etc.: --
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.
Each year we have a confrontation, the threat to strike, the "go-slow", the overtime ban, the work to rule.
I would not say that the trade union movement was devoid of powers to discipline members on a go-slow.
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.
I describe myself, and have done for many years, as a go-slow federalist.
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.
Is there somewhere a kind of go-slow policy?
I refer to the recent power workers' go-slow.
