job action

1. 1.

   a temporary action by workers to protest management decision or to make demands

   Broaderdirect action

   Narrowergo-slowwork to rulestrike

Questions about job action

What does job action mean?

job action means "a temporary action by workers to protest management decision or to make demands".

Is job action a common word?

job action is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.