How to Use job action in a Sentence

job action

noun

• The union has threatened a job action if wages are not increased.
• Of course, this is not the first job action at Harvard.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2019
• The union, at the time, said the issues were not due to any official or unofficial job action.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2021
• If the union doesn’t get its demands satisfied and undertakes a job action, who will this help?
  — Alan J. Borsuk, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2018
• Getting dressed for that kind of on-the-job action was a tricky business that began with scholarly research.
  — Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• The picket lines, which do not represent a strike or other job action, are scheduled for each of the next three weeks at American.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 11 Oct. 2021
• Savage told the Free Press on Thursday that the unions did not intentionally plan a job action when the border was set to reopen.
  — Sam Fogel, Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 2021
• The job action is coming on the heels of a three-day strike by Dedham teachers that ended this week with the ratification of a new contract.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• The recent figures don't compare to 20th century job actions, of course.
  — Daniela Sirtori-Cortina, CNN, 19 Feb. 2020
• The movement began with job actions in West Virginia earlier this year.
  — Dana Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• The reality is that our students and families will feel the impact of any job action that our teachers might take.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• This is the second time in seven years that Chicago teachers have gone on strike, and the job action comes amid a resurgence of teacher activism that has swept states from coast to coast over the last two years.
  — Moriah Balingit, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
• The series of recent job actions began in West Virginia, where teachers won a 5% raise after shutting down schools for nine days.
  — Washington Post, latimes.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Over the years, airline workers have conducted job actions that fell short of a strike but disrupted flights anyway.
  — CBS News, 13 May 2023
• The lost hammered Southwest Ohio’s five systems, which closed offices and imposed wage cuts, furloughs, workweek cutbacks and other job actions to stem the drain.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 4 May 2020
• The job action was short-lived as the village and police union reached a tentative agreement and planned to work on negotiating a new contract to replace one that had lapsed in 2020.
  — Mike Nolan, chicagotribune.com, 31 Dec. 2021
• However, Shindle said the union has been speaking with members on tour and readying them for the possibility of a job action.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2023
• The players, while having taken job action, were not and are not in a legal strike position under Ontario labor law.
  — Asif Burhan, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• The job action will be, at least at first, a work-to-rule strike at all airports, land borders, commercial shipping ports, postal facilities, and headquarters.
  — Minnah Arshad, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2021
• Nevertheless, such assurance that the vaccine mandate didn’t cause a job action here hasn’t been enough to sway everyone.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 11 Oct. 2021
• The Las Vegas area saw one of the longest job actions in the history of the nation, the Frontier strike that began in 1991 and ended more than six years later after a buyer bought the Frontier and settled with workers.
  — NBC News, 23 May 2018
• At the same time, the long-running job action is creating increasing economic difficulties for some writers and actors and the support staffs that work with them.
  — Erica Werner, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• Germany’s powerful service-workers’ union has held a number of job actions over pay and working conditions in recent years.
  — Heather Haddon, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
• A year ago, the Boston hotel industry experienced its first major strike in modern history when 1,500 Marriott workers walked off the job — the first in a string of Marriott job actions across the country.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• Powerful groups usually hold their fire for a while when a new leader takes charge of the city's schools, but the unions representing teachers and administrators are staging job actions and protests right away.
  — Shelby Grad, latimes.com, 25 May 2018
• The hotel worker strike is just one in a burst of job actions scheduled by various unions this spring and summer, across multiple industries in Southern California.
  — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023
• In one infamous incident, the union orchestrated a surprise job action on a day that a Rikers inmate was scheduled to testify against two guards accused of assault.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2017
• Murray noted the union is prohibited from taking job action to resolve labor disputes under the Railway Labor Act.
  — Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2021
• The job action began last Thursday, resulting in closures of schools that educate the vast majority of Arizona’s 1.1 million public school students.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2018
• That job action, like the iconic national Pullman strike a year earlier, was triggered by economic hardship and poor working conditions.
  — Phil Primack, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024