union labor
Workers with representation
Union labor refers to workers who belong to a labor union—an organization that collectively bargains with employers over wages, benefits, and working conditions.
The term often contrasts with non-union labor: The project was built entirely with union labor.
It can also describe the work itself or the broader organized labor movement: Union labor built the middle class.
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- picket lineProtesting workers' boundary
- collectiveJointly organized group
- bargainingNegotiating mutually acceptable terms
- picketPointed fence stake
wages · living wage · solidarity · rank and file · workers · dues · steelworkers · teamsters · AFL-CIO · contract · grievance · seniority · organizing · closed shop · scab · walkout · collective bargaining · brotherhood
- workjob, 9 to 5, jobs, employee, profession
- group workbarn raising, work party, team building, workday, collective farming
- automakingassembly line, car factory, production line, final assembly, paint shop
- Midwest Economycorn farming, wheat farming, grain elevators, farm equipment, John Deere
- manufacturingfactories, factory, car factory, assembly plants, electronics factory
- contractsbinding contracts, contract length, lease, clause, contract terms
union laborindependent contractors
Self-employed service providers
gig workers · freelancers · day laborers · self-employed · temporary workers
union labormanagement
Organizing and directing resources
strikebreakers · capital · ownership · employers · corporate interests
union, labor, unions, unionist, unionize, unionized, unionizing, unionization, reunite