job action

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Recent Examples on the Web The faculty union reached the deal after eight months of bargaining negotiations with CSU administrators and numerous job actions, including two sets of strikes. Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 20 Feb. 2024 If approved by union members, the agreement — achieved after mediation with Mayor Karen Bass — could prevent campuses from being closed again to 420,000 students and spare workers from job actions that would have been difficult to bear. Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023 Faculty also were forming picket lines at the California State University system’s 21 other campuses in a job action that comes during the opening days of the spring semester. Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2024 As labor negotiations have dragged on and union members have staged job actions, some nervous retailers and manufacturers have rerouted goods, causing imports and exports through the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports to fall in recent months. Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023 See all Example Sentences for job action 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for job action
Noun
  • Ahead of the sit-down dinner and ceremony, guests such as Storm Reid, Christine Quinn, Jurnee Smollett, and Lukas Gage trickled in from the rainy outdoors over an hour or so, greeted inside with Casamigos cocktails, filet mignon canapés, and more.
    Jamila Stewart, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
  • News in the sit-down, which was recorded on March 15.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2023
Noun
  • But those kinds of sympathy strikes are allowed in most of Europe, and thus make general strikes across broad swaths of those economies far more frequent.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • An official from an association that represents local car repair shops has also raised concerns that some of its members are being hit hard by the sympathy strikes, which prevent them from carrying out any repairs.
    Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • Some data indicates that the filming slowdown has bottomed out, with the number of production starts in the U.S. steadily climbing.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The slowdown could mean that even top-level consumers are being cautious about spending.
    Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024

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“Job action.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/job%20action. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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