job action

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Recent Examples of job action The order also directed an investigation of the job action, which was a violation of the Taylor Law barring certain state employees from striking. Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2025 However, there were allegations that the sick-out at that time was, in truth, a job action. Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2025 The National Union of Healthcare Workers said that nearly 2,400 mental health workers had launched their job action after Kaiser management had turned down proposals that the union said would stanch employee turnover and improve care. Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024 Effective immediately, all current job actions will cease and all work covered by the Master Contract will resume. Jay Peters, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for job action
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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
  • By July, sympathy strikes were underway in 23 states.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Meanwhile, the Energy Institute’s recent Statistical Review of World Energy 2025, a global report that was once compiled by BP until very recently, did not directly predict a peak, but noted that some regions and nations - especially China - are seeing a slowdown or plateau in oil demand.
    Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
  • Retail sales rose a better-than-expected 0.6% in June, the Commerce Department said Thursday, after two consecutive months of spending declines, a 0.1% pullback in April and a 0.9% slowdown in May.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 July 2025

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“Job action.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/job%20action. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.

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