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work stoppage

停工,休工,歇工,停车

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the collective stoppage of work by employees in a business or an industry to protest working conditions.

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Examples

  • Delaying safe, in-person learning with an illegal work stoppage will push students even further behind.

  • He failed to do so only in 1981, which was shortened by a work stoppage.

  • Tech workers, for instance, organized at least 43 protests, actions or work stoppages related to the coronavirus last year, including a number of small, upstart operations, independent of any formal union, according to Collective Action in Tech.

  • The old union would stop the line over seemingly trivial things, but the United Food and Commercial Workers local didn’t hold a walkout or work stoppage, which labor laws significantly restrict, as more than 1,000 workers got infected.

  • The hosts of late-night talk shows — including The Colbert Report’s Stephen Colbert, among others — were forbidden from working with their writing staffs, since the Writers Guild of America had declared a work stoppage.

  • If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.

  • Why, some might be asking, am I being so harsh on their work so soon after they died?

  • “I love my job and I love my city and I am committed to the work here,” he said in a statement.

  • So it might be me projecting my desires onto Archer to want to just get away from work for a few weeks.

  • To make it work almost everything else about these shows has to seem factual which is why many look like a weird Celebrity Sims.

  • Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

  • With him one is at high pressure all the time, and I have gained a good many more ideas from him than I can work up in a hurry.

  • In fact, except for Ramona's help, it would have been a question whether even Alessandro could have made Baba work in harness.

  • The sad end of the mission to King M'Bongo has been narrated in the body of this work.

  • Entrez donc, 'tis the work of one of your compatriots; and here, though a heretic, you may consider yourself on English ground.