GERMANY - 70,000 workers downed tools at VW factories today, as the EV crisis spreads.
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To "down tools" is to put down your tools and leave. It is a characteristic British phrase. I hear it in anglophone Africa. We would say "walk off the job," not meaning, of course, that we are shedding the job like poundage by walking, or pitching over the end of a pier.