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Organized Labor


a form of labor-management negotiation in which management opens with a generous offer that is subject to little or no bargaining.
a member of a political party or other group allied with the interests of labor.
the beliefs of bands of early 19th-century English workmen that attempted to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by destroying it. Also Ludditism. — Luddite, n.
the practices and policies of a labor union. — unionist, n., adj.
a system of permanent voluntary boards in English industries in which both management and workers settle matters of wages, hours, etc.
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These two defeats had been very disastrous to organized labor. The whole Water Front Federation, along with its allies in the structural trades, had backed up the teamsters, and all had smashed down ingloriously.
These associations were practically middle- class affairs, and now, compelled by hard times and crashing markets, and aided by the great captains of industry, they gave organized labor an awful and decisive defeat.
(appeals for assistance, for sanctions from the organized labor groups, requests for square news deals to the editors of newspapers, protests against the high-handed treatment of revolutionists by the United States courts), lay unmailed, awaiting postage.
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In the pages of "Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981", Professor Foner deftly traces the radical history of Black workers' contribution to the American labor movement.
Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981
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But remarkably absent from the document was any comment on the state of organized labor in Indiana.
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In his speech, he bragged about the state and organized labor arranging Project Labor Agreements, which sounds innocuous to most people.
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