A meeting of employees held in company time to consider strike action or the progress of an industrial dispute.
 the dispute will be settled before Friday when a stopwork meeting of teachers is scheduled
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-  A stop-work meeting will be held on March 13 to consider the new offer.
 -  About 100 workers gathered for a stop-work meeting yesterday demanding to know why management had misled them.
 -  Another stopwork meeting is planned for next week to consider the outcome of negotiations.
 -  Bus drivers from three of Perth's four private bus companies attended stop-work meetings on Wednesday to demand improved working conditions.
 -  Brisbane City garbage collectors held a stop work meeting last Tuesday over council plans to use a new contractor.
 -  The offer was reported back to New Zealand Nurses Organisation members at stop work meetings over the last week.
 -  New Zealand manufacturing workers concluded a series of mass stop-work meetings this week.
 -  The campaign of industrial action was overwhelmingly approved at a series of recent stopwork meetings.
 -  The stopwork meetings were intended to determine a plan of action in response.
 -  Nurses will be holding stopwork meetings from December 17 to consider the next move in the five-month dispute.