How to Use work stoppage in a Sentence

work stoppage

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  • The actors work stoppage passed the three-month mark on Oct. 14.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 17 Oct. 2023
  • In the year since forming the union, Pineapple Street staffers have yet to stage any kind of work stoppage.
    — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Adjustments have been put in place to menus in case of a work stoppage.
    — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Even the threat of a work stoppage could tangle the nation’s supply chains.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2022
  • In the midst of the biggest wave of work stoppages since the 1970s, Riley notes, labor unions and strikes are almost nowhere to be seen on screen.
    — Emma Silvers, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2023
  • Yet the idea persists that the UAW’s contract stance is the governing factor in the effect of a work stoppage.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Their 42-day work stoppage began and ended all within the span of the much longer writers strike.
    — Andrew Dalton, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2023
  • In both cases, the vote is just the first step on a path that rarely if ever ends in an actual work stoppage.
    — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
  • The six-week work stoppage cost GM $3.6 billion and had broad impact across the industry.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, The Courier-Journal, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The United Auto Workers strike has the potential to become one of the largest work stoppages in the past three decades.
    — Joe Murphy, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • In the meantime, a prolonged work stoppage among the actors could delay the return to work for writers.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2023
  • In the meantime, a prolonged work stoppage among the actors could delay the return to work for some writers.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The one-day strike was the first newsroom work stoppage in the newspaper's 142-year history.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The strike by the writers, which began in May, has already run longer than the union’s previous work stoppage in 2007.
    — Christopher Palmeri, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The strike is the first work stoppage for employees in America's second-largest city in more than 40 years.
    — USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The executive, like many of those on the side of the studios and producers in the current guild faceoffs, is baffled by the idea of a work stoppage.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 13 June 2023
  • There are entities that are set up to provide staffing during a health care work stoppage.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
  • And there’s reasons even the most referee-skeptical of fans should care about this work stoppage.
    — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The union had another work stoppage in June when roughly 1,200 workers went on strike.
    — Allison Prang, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Due to union’s work stoppage orders, the voice cast cannot complete dialogue recording in time for the spring opening, said a Sony source.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 28 July 2023
  • This strike is the first work stoppage to involve all three Detroit automakers.
    — Emily Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 15 Sep. 2023
  • This year, as its own work stoppages raged, Unite Here Local 11 supported the writers’ and actors’ strikes over the summer and fall.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Nov. 2023
  • O'Brien often talks about the $300 million strike fund the union has accumulated to pay members in case of a work stoppage.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Inmates called a work stoppage last week to draw attention to problems and demand changes.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 7 Oct. 2022
  • According to Payday Report, which tracks strikes via local news, there has been, over the past three years, at least 2,918 strikes and work stoppages.
    — WIRED, 22 June 2023
  • The vote does not mean a strike is imminent, and the timeline does not allow for a work stoppage around Thanksgiving travel.
    — Greg Wallace, CNN, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Employees at the company have authorized a work stoppage should the parties fail to strike a deal.
    — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 5 July 2023
  • This strike is the first work stoppage to involve all the Big Three Detroit automakers, although not all plants have been shuttered.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Pending work stoppages could mean that the worst is yet to come for patients of England’s National Health Service.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Four of the 12 unions representing rail workers rejected the deal, setting the stage for a work stoppage that would have begun Dec. 9.
    — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2022

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