0 an occasion when workers do something that is intended to force an employer to agree to something, especially by stopping work:
Workers at the plant are threatening industrial action.
1 actions by workers, especially the action of stopping work, that are intended to force an employer to agree to something:
Doctors can - and do - shrug such reports away, saying that a few will suffer in every such industrial action.
The doctors conclude that they have no option except industrial action to ensure corrective action.
In another company where a union had existed, industrial action 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 industrial action throughout the country.
The union membership supported the nationwide industrial action that brought government services to a halt.
Indeed, wage competition and glaring disparities in working conditions not only quickened labour mobility but also provoked industrial action.
These sick individuals are, in no way, concerned with the matters that provoke industrial action.
The wider scale of labour organisation and industrial action immeasurably complicated the jobber's task.
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