lockout

The withholding of work from employees and closing down of a workplace by an employer during a labor dispute.

The act of excluding a person or persons from a place by locking it up; the condition of such exclusion.

The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages.

The opposite of a strike, a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.

The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.

A situation where the system is not responding to input.

prevent employees from working during a strike

a management action resisting employee’s demands; employees are barred from entering the workplace until they agree to terms