labor activists
Workers' rights champions
Labor activists are people who organize and advocate for workers' rights—better wages, safer conditions, collective bargaining, and fair treatment by employers.
The term covers union organizers, strike leaders, and advocates for labor law reform: Labor activists picketed outside the factory for weeks.
The phrase often appears in historical contexts involving early 20th-century movements, but remains current for contemporary organizing efforts.
- unionJoining into one
- union duesPayments to labor organizations
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- work stoppageOrganized cessation of labor
- picketPointed fence stake
picket line · solidarity · organize · rally · march · May Day · workers · shop floor · protest · collective · bargaining · living wage · wages · rights · Chavez · Hoffa · factory · boycott
- activistsMartin Luther King Jr., protester, campaigner, demonstrator, Rosa Parks
- labor historyAFL-CIO, workers, CIO, unionization, industrial workers
- labor leadersunion leaders, union organizers, trade unionists
- Labor Movementunion organizers, union leaders, trade unionists, union activism, Samuel Gompers
- reformersreformers, reformer, social reformers, social reformer, political reformer
- notable figurespolitical leaders, historical figures, dignitary, luminary, presidents
labor activistscorporate executives
Senior company leadership
management · business owners · employers · robber barons · company management
labor activistsstrikebreakers
Workers replacing union laborers
scabs · Pinkertons · goons · company men
labor, labour, activists, activist, active, activate, activation, activator, activity