disagreementsandactionssuch asstrikes(=workersrefusingtowork)thatresultfromemployeesbeingunhappywith asituation:Absenteeism is morelikelyto be anexpressionofindustrialconflictthan amatterofseparateindividualschoosingto taketimeoff.(Definition ofindustrial conflictfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofindustrial conflict
industrial conflictBut his friend has become a populist leader among the ironworkers, who are involved in a bitterindustrialconflict.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In exchange for wage restraint and an increase in the social wage the trade union movement agreed to support economic reform and opposeindustrialconflict(i.e. strikes).FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The re-organisation of work, sometimes real, and sometimes anticipated, also provokedindustrialconflict.From theCambridge English CorpusAsindustrialconflictintensified, it was a short step for officials to conclude that the jobber was an impediment to more harmonious social relations.From theCambridge English CorpusBut times ofindustrialconflictwere, potentially, a good time for party recruitment.From theCambridge English CorpusHowever, this planning of rational energy saving techniques has not been exploited to introduce ingredients ofindustrialconflict.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishWhenindustrialconflictbreaks out, the parties to the dispute simultaneously become involved in a battle of interpretation, the object of which is to define the meaning of the conflict.From theCambridge English CorpusHe attributes social democratic reform in the 1930s to impressive organizational and electoral progress in the 1920s and early 1930s, accompanied by record levels of costlyindustrialconflict.From theCambridge English CorpusIt continues a pattern of centralisedindustrialconflict.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Many of those claims would have been a potential source ofindustrialconflicthad the machinery not been available.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/industrial-conflict##
