industrial action

noun

British

: job action

Examples of industrial action in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The strike would be the most significant industrial action in three decades for the Western Australian mining industry, according to local media reports. — Lee Ying Shan,tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 15 July 2026

Workers started industrial action at all three Inpex facilities last week, downing tools for four hours a day among other measures. — Sing Yee Ong, Bloomberg, 8 June 2026

The union’s members plan to participate in escalating industrial action over the next month. — Joel Khalili, Wired News, 29 May 2026

The industrial action, announced with little advance notice, is the result of escalating labor disputes over pension terms at Lufthansa and Lufthansa Cargo and pay negotiations at CityLine. — Emese MacZko, Forbes.com, 12 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1914, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for industrial action

• dissatisfaction
• overreaction
• abstraction
• attraction
• compaction
• contraction
• detraction
• diffraction
• distraction
• exaction
• extraction
• impaction