Sentence examples for stoppage of work from inspiring English sources

General strike, stoppage of work by a substantial proportion of workers in a number of industries in an organized endeavour to achieve economic or political objectives.

Several different and complex disputes were involved in yesterday's stoppage of work, which affected 42 per cent of the coalfield's workers.

On April 24, NYSDOT announced they had appealed the stoppage of work on the interchange, which had been suspended pending a ruling by the Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state.

While the village of Westbury was praising Ernest Strada for taking on the state, residents of the village of Carle Place felt they were being taken hostage by his actions and that the stoppage of work was hurting their community more than Westbury.

"During a period of work stoppage, pressures and problems develop which make building management very difficult".

Mr. Coffin noted that the injunction also ordered the union "not to engage in any slowdown or any other kind of work stoppage".

RUMBLINGS OF WORK STOPPAGE -- Expressing pessimism after reviewing N.B.A. owners' initial collective bargaining proposal, the director of the players' union said yesterday that the league could be heading toward a work stoppage after the 2004-5 season.

"I think there were a lot of people," he said, "who never believed they'd live long enough to see these two parties come together, make a very meaningful deal and do it without one game of work stoppage".

He has until the end of July to come to an arrangement with the 16 unions who represent the Met's employees and avoid "some kind of work stoppage".

"That's something we have strived for and built toward since coming out of work stoppage with a new economic system, changing the rules and officiating standards," Bettman said.

We dreaded any kind of work stoppage, strike, layoff, whatever.