labor organizing
Workers joining together
Labor organizing is the effort to unite workers to bargain collectively with employers over wages, conditions, and rights.
It typically involves building support for a union, recruiting members, and conducting campaigns for official recognition.
The term covers everything from informal workplace coordination to formal drives culminating in certification elections: She spent three years labor organizing in the meatpacking industry.
- union membershipJoining a labor organization
- Haymarket affair1886 Chicago labor riot
- unionizationForming a labor collective
- picket linesBarriers formed by strikers
- on the lineIn a precarious position
right-to-work laws · union dues · Samuel Gompers · collective bargaining · rank-and-file · union rep · trade union · union hall · card check · public demonstrations · shop steward · wildcat strike · work stoppage · closed shop · NLRB · rally · strike · minimum wage laws
- laborwork, laborers, workers, hard work, employment
- protestdemonstration, walkout, picket, protest march, sit-in
- Gilded AgeGilded Age, robber baron, robber barons, Carnegie, Rockefeller
- Labor Movementunion organizers, union leaders, trade unionists, union activism, Samuel Gompers
- labor movementsgeneral strike, general strikes, picket lines, unionization, collective action
- labor unionsunion dues, trade union, union membership, union shops, union card
labor organizingevery man for himself
Chaotic self-interest declaration
at-will employment · gig economy · right-to-work · freelancing · self-employment
labor organizingunion busting
Disrupting worker organizing efforts
strikebreaking · decertification · lockouts · employer retaliation · management consulting
labor organizingtop-down management
Leadership from the hierarchy's apex