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Recent Examples of job action
However, there were allegations that the sick-out at that time was, in truth, a job action.
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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
The workers are not airline workers and therefore are not subject to the mediation and slow path to job actions provided by the Railway Labor Act.
—Ted Reed, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
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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
The workers are not airline workers and therefore are not subject to the mediation and slow path to job actions provided by the Railway Labor Act.
—Ted Reed, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for job action
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.—
Jamila Stewart,
Vogue,
22 Mar. 2023
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News in the sit-down, which was recorded on March 15.—
Kirsty Hatcher,
Peoplemag,
22 Mar. 2023
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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
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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
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Luxury, for instance, has seen the US as its most resilient market in a global slowdown.—
Marc Bain and Joan Kennedy,
CNN Money,
3 Apr. 2025
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The government's monthly jobs report, which will be released on April 4 at 8:30 a.m. EST, is expected to show a slowdown in hiring, with economists forecasting that employers added 130,000 new hires in March, according to financial data company FactSet.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Job action.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/job%20action. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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