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Labour, minimums & unpaid work · Working

Struck work

ELI5

Work covered by a lawful labour strike and subject to the union’s strike rules.

Used in conversation

“We need to confirm struck work before anyone signs or starts work.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Struck work” in rights, contracts, finance, distribution & labour conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains who controls, pays for, approves, exploits or bears risk around a project.

Caution

Meaning and consequences may change by contract, collective agreement, territory or law. This entry is orientation, not legal advice.

Connected terms

  • StrikebreakerComputed from definition language and shared taxonomy. This indicates proximity, not synonymy.
Sources & evidence · 8

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.