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Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. Strikes became common during the Industrial Revolution, when mass labor became important in factories and mines. As ...
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
Work-to-rule, also known as an Italian strike or a slowdown in United States usage, called in Italian a sciopero bianco meaning "white strike", [1] is a job action in which employees do no more than the minimum required by the rules of their contract or job, [2] [3] and strictly follow time-consuming rules normally not enforced. [4]
Industrial action (British English) or job action (American English) is a temporary show of dissatisfaction by employees—especially a strike or slowdown or working to rule—to protest against bad working conditions or low pay and to increase bargaining power with the employer and intended to force the employer to improve them by reducing productivity in a workplace.
‘I’d like to get back to work’: Strike at Textron nears end of first week. Other large strikes are going on nationwide. Boeing, another aviation company, has roughly 33,000 workers on strike
In continuing to work, or taking jobs at a workplace under current strike, strikebreakers are said to "cross picket lines". Some countries have passed laws outlawing strikebreakers to give more power to trade unions , other countries have passed right-to-work laws which protect strikebreakers.
A person holds a sign during a solidarity march for striking writers along Hollywood Boulevard in 2007. This week, an estimated 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America went on strike.
The issue of “hyphenates” continuing to work during a strike has a fraught legal history. In 1973, the WGA fined several members as much as $50,000 for continuing to perform supervisory ...