labor activism
Fighting for workers
Labor activism is organized effort by workers to improve wages, working conditions, and workplace rights.
It encompasses union organizing, strikes, collective bargaining, and political advocacy for labor-friendly policies.
Her labor activism began on the factory floor and eventually took her to Congress.
The term covers both formal union activity and grassroots worker movements.
- worker solidarityMutual support among employees
- picketingOrganized protest outside workplace
- picket lineProtesting workers' boundary
- minimum wage lawsLegislated lowest permissible pay
- collective bargainingJoint worker-employer talks
union representation · union dues · lockouts · Cesar Chavez · slowdowns · sit-ins · walkout · work stoppage · unfair dismissal · fair treatment · wildcat strike · Samuel Gompers · civil disobedience · right-to-work laws · strike funds · scabs · Haymarket affair · industrial action
- laborwork, laborers, workers, hard work, employment
- labor historyAFL-CIO, workers, CIO, laborers, unionization
- Labor Politicsunionization, union contracts, union elections, right to work, collective bargaining
- labor relationscollective agreement, union elections, bargaining, union shop, union contract
- labor unionsunion dues, trade union, union membership, union shops, union card
- unionstrade union, union locals, credit union, African Union, European Union
labor activismacquiescence
Unresisting acceptance
resignation · docility · submission · disengagement · quiescence
labor activismunion busting
Disrupting worker organizing efforts