Work to rule is on going and is expected to last through to the end of the 2012-13 school year.

Hundreds more, including social workers, are working to rule.

In this business we've got to work to rules; otherwise everything goes topsy-turvy.

Better for people to strike then work to rule for a few months.

There is already a move towards working to rule.

The list is piling up of things that work to rule out a candidate for President or a key official.

A specific form of industrial action that utilizes this is work to rule.

We have been working to rule since last year as a result of the pensions, being an academy won't change the right to industrial action.

When these reforms were first mooted last year they caused strikes and a work to rule.

Health officials said they were working to rule out a remote chance that all developed their illness from mosquito bites.

Options for action could include work to rule, such as only working contracted hours and taking all mealtime breaks.

'Held up on account of their work to rule.

"It's the Formal Logic building, and they're working to rule."

One option, called the "work to rule" strategy, would encourage flight attendants to hold the company to every article of the contract.

Lecturers at half of the country's universities will work to rule this week in a bitter dispute over their pensions.

See Silent strike, slowdown, exceptional obedience (work to rule), below.

They really are working to rule.

Management yesterday began suspending ambulance staff in retaliation to the work to rule tactics of the unions.

Working to rule, I ask you.

The pilots "worked to rule" that summer, refusing overtime at the busiest time of year and just as the airline was trying to expand.

The consequence was that in a strike, employees merely "working to rule" needed not to be paid, because they had only partly performed their obligations.

Union officials have said that if they are forced to return to work, they will begin a "work to rule" campaign to stall operations.

Combined with the work to rule campaign, the airline was unable to cover all of its scheduled flights and cancellations resulted.

So yeah we all thought, we'll work to rule a couple of weeks, things'll get sorted and we'll all be back to normal.

The difference between 1978 and now is that ambulance staff are not on strike but are working to rule, and answering all emergency calls.