anti-worker
Hostile to employees
Anti-worker describes policies, attitudes, or actions that harm workers' interests—opposing unions, cutting wages, weakening labor protections, or prioritizing corporate profits over employee welfare: Critics called the legislation anti-worker for gutting overtime pay requirements.
The term is politically charged, typically used by labor advocates rather than those it describes.
Pro-market, anti-regulation ideology
- precarityState of persistent vulnerability
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- globalizationWorldwide economic and cultural integration
- financializationCapital sector's economic dominance
oligopoly · monopoly · deindustrialization · disposability · alienation
Exploitative manufacturing workplace
- underpayCompensate inadequately
- precariousDangerously insecure
- burnoutChronic occupational depletion
- exhaustionState of utter depletion
disposable · replaceable · piecework · misclassification · casualization · zero-hours
Replacement during walkout
- scabDried blood crust
- lockoutEmployer-imposed work stoppage
- blacklistRecord of prohibited entities
- decertificationRevoking official recognition
deunionization · injunction · surveillance · propaganda · Pinkerton · consultant · spy · informant
Punitive response to injury
- intimidationDeliberate fear-inducing pressure
- terminationAct of ending something
- harassmentAggressive, unwanted targeting
- bullyingAggressive repeated intimidation
discrimination · coercion · blacklisting · demotion · surveillance
Removing governmental business restrictions
- privatizationState sells public assets
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- offshoringMoving work overseas
- outsourcingThird-party task delegation
neoliberalism
Pro-market, anti-regulation ideology
- precarityState of persistent vulnerability
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- globalizationWorldwide economic and cultural integration
financialization · oligopoly · monopoly · deindustrialization · disposability · alienation
sweatshop
Exploitative manufacturing workplace
- underpayCompensate inadequately
- precariousDangerously insecure
- burnoutChronic occupational depletion
exhaustion · disposable · replaceable · piecework · misclassification · casualization · zero-hours
strikebreaker
Replacement during walkout
decertification · deunionization · injunction · surveillance · propaganda · Pinkerton · consultant · spy · informant
retaliation
Punitive response to injury
- intimidationDeliberate fear-inducing pressure
- terminationAct of ending something
- harassmentAggressive, unwanted targeting
bullying · discrimination · coercion · blacklisting · demotion · surveillance
deregulation
Removing governmental business restrictions
- privatizationState sells public assets
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- offshoringMoving work overseas
anti-workerworking-class
Manual laborers as group
class-conscious · populist · socialist · egalitarian · syndicalist
anti, worker, work, works, worked, working, workable, unworkable, workers