trade unionism
Collective worker advocacy
Trade unionism is the principles, practices, and movement of organized labor—workers banding together to negotiate collectively with employers over wages, conditions, and rights.
The term encompasses both the philosophy that workers gain power through solidarity and the practical activities of forming and operating unions: Trade unionism has a long history in the manufacturing sector.
Someone committed to these principles is a trade unionist.
Organized protest outside workplace
- walkoutProtest by leaving
- work stoppageOrganized cessation of labor
- industrial actionCollective employee pressure tactic
- lockoutEmployer-imposed work stoppage
strike · demonstration · labor dispute · boycott · sympathy strike · wildcat strike · sit-down strike · slowdown
Joint worker-employer talks
- workers' rightsLegal protections for employees
- shop stewardElected worker liaison
- organizingSystematically putting in order
- rank and fileOrdinary members collectively
labor council · affiliation · stewardship · closed shop · card check · certification · decertification · right to work
Depiction or likeness
- lobbyingAdvocating to decision-makers
- activismDirect effort for reform
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
- arbitrationNon-court binding dispute resolution
mediation · labor laws · employment standards · campaigning · labor relations · collective voice · fair wages · workplace safety
Kinship among men
- unityWholeness through cohesion
- camaraderieGoodwill among companions
- cohesionTendency to bind together
- allianceFormal union of parties
cooperation · fellowship · mutuality · esprit de corps · harmony · partnership · loyalty · consensus
picketing
Organized protest outside workplace
- walkoutProtest by leaving
- work stoppageOrganized cessation of labor
- industrial actionCollective employee pressure tactic
lockout · strike · demonstration · labor dispute · boycott · sympathy strike · wildcat strike · sit-down strike · slowdown · picket line
collective bargaining
Joint worker-employer talks
- workers' rightsLegal protections for employees
- shop stewardElected worker liaison
- organizingSystematically putting in order
rank and file · labor council · affiliation · stewardship · closed shop · card check · certification · decertification · right to work · local chapter
representation
Depiction or likeness
- lobbyingAdvocating to decision-makers
- activismDirect effort for reform
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
arbitration · mediation · labor laws · employment standards · campaigning · labor relations · collective voice · fair wages · workplace safety · job security
brotherhood
Kinship among men
- unityWholeness through cohesion
- camaraderieGoodwill among companions
- cohesionTendency to bind together
alliance · cooperation · fellowship · mutuality · esprit de corps · harmony · partnership · loyalty · consensus · togetherness
- labor fictionfactory workers, labor strikes, labor movement, working class, labor
- Labor Politicslabor laws, labor movement, labor policy, labor disputes, labor reforms
- labor unionsAFL-CIO, Teamsters, locals, shop steward, stewards
- leftismMarxism, socialism, communism, leftist, socialist
- union activismlabor strikes, picket lines, walkouts, work stoppages, strike action
- Victorian IdeasVictorianism, Darwinism, social Darwinism, evolution, natural selection
trade unionismunion busting
Disrupting worker organizing efforts
at-will employment · right-to-work · open shop · gig economy · freelancing
trade unionismneoliberalism
Pro-market, anti-regulation ideology
libertarianism · Thatcherism · Reaganomics · corporatism · managerialism
trade, union, trader, reunion, trademark, traded, trades, unions, traders