labor unions
Organized employee groups
Labor unions are organizations of workers formed to negotiate collectively with employers over wages, benefits, and working conditions.
The power of a union lies in its ability to bargain as a unified group rather than as individuals, with the threat of strikes as leverage.
The labor union negotiated a new contract with management.
Union membership has declined significantly in the private sector since the mid-20th century but remains stronger in public employment.
- Taft-HartleyFederal labor management statute
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- trade unionsWorker collectives for negotiations
- solidarityUnity among allies
- industrial actionCollective employee pressure tactic
scab · strike fund · collective bargaining · workers' rights · fair wages · syndicalism · brotherhood · shop steward · blue collar · closed shop · card check · associations · pickets · class struggle · walkout · negotiations · guilds · overtime
- French Laborpaid leave, syndicalism, job protection, worker rights, workplace rights
- labor historyAFL-CIO, workers, CIO, unionization, industrial workers
- unionslocal unions, trade unionists, unionization, unionized workforce, shop stewards
- organizationsorganization, organizations, company, companies, club
- 20th century commercetrade, corporations, e-commerce, mass production, marketing
- 1950s AmericaEisenhower, McCarthy, McCarthyism, suburbs, Korean War
labor unionsmanagement
Organizing and directing resources
employers · corporations · ownership · capital · business owners
labor unionsstrikebreakers
Workers replacing union laborers
independent contractors · freelancers · gig workers · scabs · right-to-work
labor unionsunion busting
Disrupting worker organizing efforts
open shop · right-to-work laws · Pinkerton agents · laissez-faire economics · Reaganomics
union, labor, laborer, labored, laboring, collaborate, collaboration, laborers, collaborator