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

• Are you prepared to take industrial action?
  你们愿意采取劳工行动吗？
• 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。
• While not actively involved in the strike, he is supportive of his older colleagues 'industrial action.
  尽管他没有积极参与罢工，但他对年长同事的劳工行动表示支持。
• In Europe, ports have already suffered some problems this year after bad weather and industrial action at Rotterdam, the continent's busiest port, caused severe hold-ups.
  在欧洲，那里的港口今年已经遭遇到了一些麻烦，恶劣的天气和欧洲最繁忙港口鹿特丹的罢工事件，导致港口出现严重的停工问题。
• Thousands of Eurostar passengers have had to change their travel plans because of industrial action on Belgium's rail network.
  因比利时铁路系统工人举行罢工，数千欧洲之星列车乘客被迫改变出行计划。
• 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。
• It is possible that production will is hold up by industrial action. a gathering of producers to promote business.
  生产可能因工业行动（罢工，怠工）而停顿。生产者为扩大业务而聚在举行的会议。
• 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。