Industrial action
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Industrial action (Commonwealth English) or job action (North 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.
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Types
- Strike
- Occupation of factories
- Work-to-rule
- General strike (mass strike)
- Slowdown (or Go-slow)
- Overtime ban
- Blue flu
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