withdraw labour
Frequency: 4.01.5 per million words
To stop working as a form of protest; to go on strike.
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- The miners are threatening to withdraw their labour if their safety demands are not met.
- Last year, the factory workers withdrew their labour over a pay dispute.
- The union has announced that its members will withdraw their labour from midnight on Friday.
- If the company does not negotiate in good faith, we will have no choice but to withdraw our labour.
- The decision to withdraw labour was made after weeks of failed negotiations.
- Withdrawing labour is always a last resort for the nurses' association.
- A vote was taken, and the majority supported the motion to withdraw labour.
- Teachers across the district are prepared to withdraw their labour if class sizes increase.
- Historically, the power to withdraw labour has been a crucial tool for workers' rights.
- The entire workforce acted in solidarity and withdrew their labour simultaneously.