Key words in the media

the giving of control or responsibility for somethig to someone else

disagreements or fighting between different groups of people

to fight or argue

a noisy, violent, and uncontrolled public gathering

to steal from shops and houses

during the workday

to make the same journey regularly between work and home

someone who regularly travels between work and home

something that you get because of your job whichs is additional to your pay but is not in the form of money

advantage or benefit which you are given because of your job

a person who tries to persuade someone to leave their job by offering them another job with more money and a higher position

to remove someone from their job

when an employer officially makes someone leave their job

to dismiss someone from a job, usually because they have done something wrong or badly

when someone is dismissed from their job

to remove someone from their job

when someone stops employing someone because there is no money to pay them or because there is no work for them (often plural) - a period when someone is not working (usually singular)

having lost your job because your employer no longer needs you

having lost your job because your employer no longer needs you

to reduce services, jobs, payments greatly or completely withour warning or in a single action

money that a company pays to workers who have lost their jobs because they are no longer needed

in the UK, money that the government pays to unemployed people who are looking for a job

jobseeker's allowance

UK: the money that the government gives to people who are unemployed

UK: number of people who are unemployed and claiming money from the government

to refuse to continue working because of an argument with an employer about working conditions, pay levels or job losses

when workers act in a way that is intended to force an employer to agree with something, especially by stopping work

a time when work is stopped because of a disagreement between workers and employers

the act of leaving an official meeting as a group in order to show disapproval, or of leaving a place of work to start a strike

an organization that represents the people who work in a particular industriy, protects their rights, and discusses their pay and working conditions with employers

a person who works while others they work with are on strike

an insulting word for a person who continues working while other people in the organization are on strike

someone who continues working during a strike or who takes the job of a worker who is involved in a strike

a worker or group of workers who protests outside the building to prevent other workers from going inside