labor agreements
Workplace negotiation outcomes
Labor agreements are formal contracts between employers and workers or their unions, setting terms of employment—wages, hours, benefits, and working conditions.
They result from collective bargaining and govern workplace relationships for a specified period: The new labor agreement included a 3% annual raise.
Also called labor contracts or collective bargaining agreements.
- clausesGrammatical or legal units
- obligationsRequired responsibilities
- collective bargainingJoint worker-employer talks
- bargaining tableWhere parties negotiate agreements
- mediationIntervention to resolve conflict
arbitration · ratification · provisions · union rights · closed shop · right to work · shop stewards · contract enforcement · amendments · terms · stipulations · employment standards · unions · employees · holiday pay · cost of living · back pay · unionization
- labor relationsunion elections, bargaining, union shop, union contract, collective bargaining
- labor unionsunion dues, trade union, union membership, union shops, union card
- treatiestreaty, treaties, peace treaty, peace treaties, bilateral treaty
- migrationmigration, immigrants, refugees, immigration, emigration
- work hourswork hours, overtime, office hours, work schedules, shifts
- contractsbinding contracts, contract length, lease, clause, contract terms
labor agreementsat-will employment
Job without guaranteed duration
labor agreementsstrikes
Refusals to work collectively
labor disputes · work stoppages · lockouts · walkouts · labor unrest
labor agreementsright-to-work laws
Laws banning mandatory union dues