(chiefly, UK, Irish, labor) A workplace protest by employees designed to inconvenience or disrupt the business of the employer.
The federation, set up in 1919 after police were banned from taking industrial action when strikes led to riots and looting, is a statutory body that provides legal support to its officers, as well as fighting their corner like a union …
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