The phrase "a refusal to work" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing someone's unwillingness to engage in work or perform tasks.
Example: "The employee's consistent refusal to work has raised concerns among management about their commitment to the team."
Alternatives: "an unwillingness to work" or "a rejection of work".
The so-called limited industrial action by members of Unite, a trade union, consists of measures like a refusal to work overtime.
A complaint may lead to a loss of hours; a refusal to work a particular shift may result in the same, as might a request for time off.
Girling left her husband without recrimination on either side and gathered people around her, binding them (as was the case with other similar sects) to celibacy, shared property, and a refusal to work for money.
In addition to a refusal to work, inmates engaging with the strike plan to go on hunger strikes, hold sit-in protests and stage a boycott of commissaries, collect phone calls and other payment streams where private and state-owned companies make money out of them.
Beyond that level high taxes will reduce the incentives for hard work and investment to the point that there will be, as there was in the 1930s, a capital strike and a refusal to work more and more for less and less.
"a refusal to work with or through the government or other institutions which ultimately rely on the threat of force, and a dedication to horizontal democracy..
She did not tolerate bigotry among her staff, nor would she tolerate any refusal to work within interracial projects.
Coakley opposed with a brief stating that, under military law, a persistent refusal to work by two or more men something that might be called a "strike" among civilians was sufficient proof of a conspiracy to override superior military authority and was equivalent to mutiny.
He does so little work it's at one point discovered he's never turned up on Fridays, going on day trips by himself to places like Seaworld – a radical refusal to work if there ever was one.
And despite the Occupy movement's reputation for a steadfast refusal to work in alliance with any other organized group, lest it be "co-opted," Occupy activists will be leading some of the trainings.
The New Jersey Board of Nursing, the agency overseeing the licensing of nurses, should clarify that a nurse's refusal to work forced overtime when she is fatigued or unable to provide safe care is not patient abandonment.
