union dispute
Collective bargaining breakdown
A union dispute is a conflict between a labor union and an employer, typically over wages, working conditions, benefits, or contract terms.
Such disputes may involve negotiations, strikes, lockouts, or arbitration: The union dispute shut down production for three weeks.
The phrase often appears in news coverage of labor actions.
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- work stoppageOrganized cessation of labor
- picketPointed fence stake
- picket lineProtesting workers' boundary
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
workers · rank and file · negotiation · grievance · walkout · industrial action · arbitration · contract · management · solidarity · scab · lockout · wages · fair wages · collective · bargaining · collective bargaining · protest
- workplace disputesgrievance, complaint, wrongful termination, wrongful dismissal, unfair dismissal
- corporate crisesbankruptcy filing, scandal, lawsuit, layoffs, data breach
- economic problemsmarket failure, recession, inflation, deflation, stagflation
- workplace conflictbullying, harassment, hostile environment, intimidation, mobbing
union disputelabor peace
Absence of work stoppages
labor agreement · union contract · negotiated settlement · peaceful coexistence · mutual understanding
union, dispute, unions, unionize, unionized, unionization, unionist, unionists, reunite