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secondary action

noun

Definitions of secondary action

  • protesting outside a factory or other place of work not directly connected with an industrial dispute to prevent its workers from going inside. The aim of secondary action is to stop a factory or place of work at the centre of industrial action from receiving supplies.

    "Changes to employment and trade union laws in the 1980s ended mass picketing and secondary action."

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