day of action

day of action
   a politically motivated strike
   For many, a day of inaction:
    In 1982, we ran into a new sort of dispute over the Health Service workers' strike. The print unions demanded that we print statements in support of the strike. The TUC staged a 'Day of Action' which printers were required to support. (Deedes, 1997)
   See also industrial action.

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