industrial action

英 [ɪnˌdʌstriəl ˈækʃn]

美 [ɪnˌdʌstriəl ˈækʃn]

n.  劳工行动; (尤指)罢工，怠工

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牛津词典

noun

• 劳工行动；（尤指）罢工，怠工
  action that workers take, especially stopping work, to protest to their employers about sth

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 劳工行动(如怠工、罢工等)
  If workers takeindustrial action, they join together and do something to show that they are unhappy with their pay or working conditions, for example refusing to work.
  1. Prison officers have decided to take industrial action.
     狱警们已决定举行罢工。

双语例句

• I apologise to all Qantas passengers that have been impacted by the industrial action.
  我向所有受到劳工行动影响的澳洲航空公司乘客表示道歉。
• The Public and Commercial Services Union said its members would walk out next Thursday and would also take other forms of industrial action, such as a ban on overtime, from July 27 to August 20.
  英国公共及商业服务联合会（PublicandCommercialServicesUnion）表示，其成员将在下周四走上街头，也将采取其他形式的行业行动，包括从7月27日至8月20日之间拒绝加班。
• The industrial action came just days after Toyota, which has a 23 per cent stake in Denso, resolved two supplier strikes in the northern port city of Tianjin.
  在这场罢工发生之前数日，拥有电装（广州南沙）有限公司23%股份的丰田刚刚解决了北方港口城市天津的两家供应商的罢工问题。
• The workers appear to have been inspired by a successful industrial action at another Honda facility in nearby Foshan.
  这些工人似乎受到邻近佛山市另一家本田工厂劳工行动取得成功的鼓舞。
• The company confirmed that the industrial action had disrupted operations at car assembly plants in Guangzhou, the provincial capital, and Wuhan in central China.
  该公司证实，这一劳工行动打乱了本田在广东省会广州和华中武汉的整车装配厂的运营。
• After the hardship caused by last year's long and bitter strike, few people are in the mood for further industrial action.
  经历了去年那次漫长而痛苦的罢工所带来的苦难之后，几乎没人有兴趣再搞劳工行动了。
• However, the workers demanded to be paid more under both scenarios and organised their own industrial action, after they complained that the official All China Federation of Trade Unions had failed to protect their interests.
  然而工人们要求提高薪酬和离职补偿，并组织起了自己的劳工行动，此前他们曾抱怨中华全国总工会（AllChinaFederationofTradeUnions）不能保护自己的权益。
• Today emergency management is still assessing the damage One million man-hours were lost through industrial action.
  今天突发时间处理组还在统计损失在工人罢工期间损失了100万工时。
• Although salaries have been rising steadily in recent years, with a hiatus in 2008-09 during the global financial crisis, the successful industrial action signalled that workers now are prepared to fight for double-digit rises.
  尽管近几年工人的工资一直在稳步增加（仅在2008-09年全球金融危机期间短暂中断），但此次成功的劳工行动表明，工人们现在准备争取两位数的加薪幅度。
• Unions are required to give seven days 'notice of industrial action
  工会组织劳工行动应提前7天作出声明。