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Industrial action (UK) or job action (US) refers collectively to any measure taken by trade unions or other organised labour meant to reduce productivity in a workplace. Quite often it is used and interpreted, mistakenly, as a euphemism for strike, but the scope is much wider. Industrial action may take place in the context of a or may be meant to effect political or social change. Specifically industrial action may include one or more of the following:

• strike
• go-slow
• work-to-rule
• general strike
• slowdown
• overtime ban