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Recent Examples of sick-out
Workers have even more leverage: Employees can circulate internal petitions calling on their CEOs to cut ties with ICE and organize collective actions like sick-outs.
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Eric Blanc,
Washington Post,
12 Jan. 2026
Boomer also denied that the district’s accusation that employees in the department had organized a sick-out on Oct. 15.
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Jessica Seaman,
Denver Post,
18 Dec. 2025
Last season, Maggie faced nursing union negotiations, culminating in a sick-out.
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Claire Franken,
TVLine,
28 Aug. 2025
Maggie’s major Season 10 storyline involved the tense nursing union negotiations at the hospital, which culminated in a sick-out.
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Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
28 Aug. 2025
Earlier this month, hundreds of Metro bus riders staged a sick-out in protest of the rising number of assaults among their ranks carried out by passengers.
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Nathan Solis,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2024
The decision came less than a week after more than 100 teachers staged a sick-out, part of a citywide day of action by educators and staff regarding the payroll problems.
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Jill Tucker,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Mar. 2024
Eric Blanc,
Washington Post,
12 Jan. 2026
Boomer also denied that the district’s accusation that employees in the department had organized a sick-out on Oct. 15.
—
Jessica Seaman,
Denver Post,
18 Dec. 2025
Last season, Maggie faced nursing union negotiations, culminating in a sick-out.
—
Claire Franken,
TVLine,
28 Aug. 2025
Maggie’s major Season 10 storyline involved the tense nursing union negotiations at the hospital, which culminated in a sick-out.
—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
28 Aug. 2025
Earlier this month, hundreds of Metro bus riders staged a sick-out in protest of the rising number of assaults among their ranks carried out by passengers.
—
Nathan Solis,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2024
The decision came less than a week after more than 100 teachers staged a sick-out, part of a citywide day of action by educators and staff regarding the payroll problems.
—
Jill Tucker,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Mar. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sick-out
Noun
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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.
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News in the sit-down, which was recorded on March 15.
Noun
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Last year, however, marked another slowdown, which experts largely attributed to a decline in international migration.
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An attempt to ease zoning and permitting rules Many housing experts point to local zoning and red tape as the root of the slowdown in homebuilding.
Noun
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Maraga was detained and later released while staging a sit-in on a major road outside the national park’s main gate.
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Some staged a sit-in and refused to move into one of the new protest areas police set up using metal barriers and concrete blocks.
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The pilots’ job action was in protest of the Belgian government’s reforms to federal pensions.
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Organized job actions like strikes or sickouts are prohibited by federal law, but since air traffic control staffing is so tight, a small number of employees taking unscheduled time off can be enough to cause problems.
Noun
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Manny Machado and Xander Bogaerts aren’t getting any younger, MLB’s expected lockout could erase some or all of next season, and even though he was extended in February, Preller might not be guaranteed another deadline under new ownership.
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The distributions will continue even if the lockout ends, Sheaks said in a Thursday interview.
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“Sick-out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sick-out. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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