labor solidarity
Workers standing together
Labor solidarity is the principle that workers share common interests and should support each other's struggles against employers or unfavorable conditions.
The concept underlies union organizing, strikes, and collective action: The dock workers refused to unload the ship in solidarity with striking sailors.
Labor solidarity may cross trade, industry, or national boundaries—an injury to one is an injury to all.
- unionizationForming a labor collective
- strikesRefusals to work collectively
- collective bargainingJoint worker-employer talks
- industrial relationsEmployer-workforce interaction dynamics
- union hallOrganized workers' headquarters
trade unions · rank and file · picketing · scab · workers' rights · living wage · wildcat strike · class consciousness · boycotts · mutual aid · organizing campaigns · strike action · protests · walkout · union · industrial action · brotherhood · struggle
- labor unionsunion dues, trade union, union membership, union shops, union card
- Student Protestssit-in, walkout, demonstration, campus activism, student movement
- unionstrade union, union locals, credit union, African Union, European Union
- Syndicalismsyndicates, Wobblies, worker control, direct action, general strike
labor solidarityatomization
Reduction to fine particles
every man for himself · going it alone · individualism · at-will employment · self-reliance
labor solidarityscabbing
Forming protective crust
strikebreaking · union busting · divide and conquer · race to the bottom · class division
labor solidarityright-to-work
Voluntary union membership policy