labor action
Organized employee resistance
Labor action is any organized effort by workers to pressure employers—strikes, walkouts, slowdowns, picketing, or work-to-rule campaigns.
The term covers both dramatic measures like refusing to work and subtler tactics like strictly following every rule to reduce productivity.
The union threatened labor action if negotiations failed.
A series of labor actions disrupted shipping across the coast.
Forceful impact or stoppage
- picketPointed fence stake
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- walkoutProtest by leaving
- work stoppageOrganized cessation of labor
slowdown · sit-in · lockout · wildcat strike · general strike · sympathy strike · sick-out · blue flu
strike
Forceful impact or stoppage
work stoppage · slowdown · sit-in · lockout · wildcat strike · general strike · sympathy strike · sick-out · blue flu · work-to-rule
rally
Gathering for a cause
- marchRhythmic group walk
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- picketingOrganized protest outside workplace
placard · banner · chanting · megaphone · leafletting · vigil · assembly · gathering · crowd · civil disobedience
- activismboycotts, activists, activist, advocate, demonstrating
- protestdemonstration, walkout, picket, protest march, sit-in
- collective actionunite, join forces, team up, mobilization, movement
- labor disputesstrikes, strike, walkout, walkouts, lockout
- protestsprotest, demonstration, protest march, demonstrations, rallies
labor actionlockout
Employer-imposed work stoppage
union busting · strikebreaking · employer retaliation · injunction · layoffs
labor actionquiet quitting
Working without exceeding requirements
labor, action, labors, labored, laboring, laborer, laborers, laborious, laboriously