Sentence examples for of labor action from inspiring English sources

There also have been reports of labor action in dozens of other factories.

Strikes or the threat of labor action at La Scala cause frequent disruptions, usually in opera productions.

This type of labor action has become a familiar story in a city that takes its coffee and takeout seriously.

But the signs of labor action were becoming more clear, from the prevalence of dead animals along highways to unrepaired traffic lights, a closed zoo and increasing stress on services like parole monitoring and health inspections.

In France, the announcement of layoffs as a result of slowed growth brought widespread threats of labor action and a call by Communist ministers in the cabinet of the Socialist prime minister, Lionel Jospin, for laws to ban layoffs by profitable companies.

The longshoremen's actions were a rare show of union militancy, reminiscent of labor actions a century ago.

He designs and manufactures the inflatable nylon rats that turn up at the sites of labor actions all over town.

With Ben-Gurion International Airport closed because of the labor action, relatives of the bombing victims who live abroad were scrambling to make arrangements.

Mr. Trumka also maintained that Colombia had not fulfilled many of the promises it made as part of a "labor action plan" that it embraced last April to help persuade Congress to ratify a free-trade accord.

Amid predictions of baseball's demise as a result of the labor action, Tom Seaver, the Mets' star pitcher and player representative, said, "The only thing that will be relevant to the fan is how his team is doing and how the individual players are making out".

It's the result of a jittery round of cost-cutting that's been going on in anticipation of a labor action threatened by both the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild.