How to Use work stoppage in a Sentence

work stoppage

noun
  • The actors work stoppage passed the three-month mark on Oct. 14.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The strikes come just two years after the union engaged in work stoppages at the ports.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 11 July 2024
  • The union has not endured a work stoppage since it was locked out by the studios in 1988.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 3 July 2024
  • In the year since forming the union, Pineapple Street staffers have yet to stage any kind of work stoppage.
    Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Adjustments have been put in place to menus in case of a work stoppage.
    Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Even the threat of a work stoppage could tangle the nation’s supply chains.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The club’s first season in Texas in 1972 was also delayed a week by a work stoppage.
    Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2022
  • So did shortstop Corey Seager, who left the Dodgers to sign a 10-year deal with the Rangers two days before the work stoppage.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
  • When the 99-day work stoppage in Major League Baseball ended on March 10, the sport surged back to life.
    New York Times, 25 Mar. 2022
  • In the midst of the biggest wave of work stoppages since the 1970s, Riley notes, labor unions and strikes are almost nowhere to be seen on screen.
    Emma Silvers, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2023
  • Yet the idea persists that the UAW’s contract stance is the governing factor in the effect of a work stoppage.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Their 42-day work stoppage began and ended all within the span of the much longer writers strike.
    Andrew Dalton, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Opening day was to have been March 31 but has been wiped out by baseball’s ninth work stoppage.
    NBC News, 10 Mar. 2022
  • In both cases, the vote is just the first step on a path that rarely if ever ends in an actual work stoppage.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
  • The six-week work stoppage cost GM $3.6 billion and had broad impact across the industry.
    Jamie L. Lareau, The Courier-Journal, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The Braves are coming out of the work stoppage with more uncertainty than most.
    Jake Seiner, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The United Auto Workers strike has the potential to become one of the largest work stoppages in the past three decades.
    Joe Murphy, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • In the meantime, a prolonged work stoppage among the actors could delay the return to work for writers.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2023
  • In the meantime, a prolonged work stoppage among the actors could delay the return to work for some writers.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The one-day strike was the first newsroom work stoppage in the newspaper's 142-year history.
    Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The strike by the writers, which began in May, has already run longer than the union’s previous work stoppage in 2007.
    Christopher Palmeri, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Baseball is now on the precipice of losing regular season games to a work stoppage for the first time since 1995.
    oregonlive, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Heaney, who signed as a free agent just before the work stoppage began, likely will be built up to the five-inning mark.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2022
  • In part due to the effects of last year’s work stoppages, there are fewer big movies hitting theaters.
    Jake Coyle, Fortune, 6 May 2024
  • Still, the sides agreed to meet for a third day in a row Wednesday, the 84th day of the second-longest work stoppage in baseball history.
    Ronald Blum, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The strike is the first work stoppage for employees in America's second-largest city in more than 40 years.
    USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Baseball has not seen a work stoppage since 1994, when the players went on strike in midseason and the dispute dragged into the next year.
    Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The executive, like many of those on the side of the studios and producers in the current guild faceoffs, is baffled by the idea of a work stoppage.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 13 June 2023
  • Workers are calling on a vote to approve a mass work stoppage as management stalls on negotiations for the fourth year.
    Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 17 July 2024
  • Those work stoppages sidelined many of television’s prestige shows, leading to opportunities for series that voters have ignored in the past, some for good reason.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2024

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