workers' rights
Employee legal entitlements
Workers' rights are the legal protections and entitlements employees have in relation to their employers—minimum wage, safe working conditions, limits on hours, freedom from discrimination, the right to organize.
The term appears in labor law and political discourse: The new legislation threatens workers' rights.
Advocates frame these as fundamental to dignity and fair treatment in the workplace.
- labor movementOrganized effort for worker rights
- collective bargainingJoint worker-employer talks
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- trade unionsWorker collectives for negotiations
- solidarityUnity among allies
minimum wage · living wage · equal pay · anti-discrimination laws · union · maternity leave · paid leave · labor law · disability accommodations · whistleblower protection · unemployment insurance · walkout · severance packages · health and safety · strike action · hazard prevention · overtime pay · wrongful termination
- labor historyAFL-CIO, labor movement, CIO, laborers, unionization
- union activismlabor strikes, picket lines, union rallies, walkouts, work stoppages
- PeronismJuan Peron, Eva Peron, Evita, PJ
- socialist statessingle-party rule, state property, planned economy
- labor disputesstrikes, strike, labor strike, walkout, walkouts
- labor relationslabor relations, labor disputes, collective agreement, union elections, bargaining
workers' rightslabor exploitation
Unfair treatment of workers
worker exploitation · corporate power · union busting · wage theft · right-to-work laws
workers' rightsneoliberalism
Pro-market, anti-regulation ideology
labor exploitation · wage slavery · Thatcherism · Reaganomics · social Darwinism
workers' rightslabor exploitation
Unfair treatment of workers
indentured servitude · forced labor · slavery · chattel slavery · serfdom