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Recent Examples of sick-out
Last season, Maggie faced nursing union negotiations, culminating in a sick-out.
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Claire Franken,
TVLine,
28 Aug. 2025
Maggie’s major Season 10 storyline involved the tense nursing union negotiations at the hospital, which culminated in a sick-out.
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Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
28 Aug. 2025
Earlier this month, hundreds of Metro bus riders staged a sick-out in protest of the rising number of assaults among their ranks carried out by passengers.
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Nathan Solis,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2024
The decision came less than a week after more than 100 teachers staged a sick-out, part of a citywide day of action by educators and staff regarding the payroll problems.
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Jill Tucker,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Mar. 2024
Claire Franken,
TVLine,
28 Aug. 2025
Maggie’s major Season 10 storyline involved the tense nursing union negotiations at the hospital, which culminated in a sick-out.
—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
28 Aug. 2025
Earlier this month, hundreds of Metro bus riders staged a sick-out in protest of the rising number of assaults among their ranks carried out by passengers.
—
Nathan Solis,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2024
The decision came less than a week after more than 100 teachers staged a sick-out, part of a citywide day of action by educators and staff regarding the payroll problems.
—
Jill Tucker,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Mar. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sick-out
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Ahead of the sit-down dinner and ceremony, guests such as Storm Reid, Christine Quinn, Jurnee Smollett, and Lukas Gage trickled in from the rainy outdoors over an hour or so, greeted inside with Casamigos cocktails, filet mignon canapés, and more.
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News in the sit-down, which was recorded on March 15.
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That puts more pressure on new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh and his colleagues, a dissent-happy bunch over the past year, to consider whether a slowdown in jobs or an uptick in inflation is the bigger risk to the economy.
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Michelle Monaghan is making midlife look less like a slowdown and more like a second wind.
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In 2024, following sit-in protests at Google offices in New York and Sunnyvale, the company fired approximately 28 workers who participated in demonstrations against Project Nimbus.
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Maraga was detained and later released while staging a sit-in on a major road outside the national park’s main gate.
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The pilots’ job action was in protest of the Belgian government’s reforms to federal pensions.
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The job action shut down the entirety of New Jersey Transit’s rail service, from the foothills of the Shawangunk Mountains in New York to Atlantic City — including, most notably, trains into and out of Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan.
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It is expected that MLB will institute a lockout following the CBA’s expiration, and the lockout could threaten the 2027 season.
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Major League Baseball faces an impending lockout as the current Collective Bargaining Agreement expires on December 1st.
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“Sick-out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sick-out. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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