Labor relations

Labor relations

Industry: Labor

Contributors in Labor relations

Labor relations

A group of Irish miners who in the 1860s and '70s vandalized the mines and terrorized the bosses. Ten were hanged as the leaders of the conspiracy after Pinkerton agent, James McParland, exposed them ...

moonlighting

Labor; Labor relations

Working more than one job withe the second job usually done in the evenings or at night.

Mohawk Valley Formula

Labor; Labor relations

Developed by James Rand, president of Remington Rand, in 1936 to break strikes. The formula included discrediting union leaders by calling them "agitators," threatening to move the plant, raising the ...

modified union shop

Labor; Labor relations

A provision in the union contract requiring all new employees to join the union and requiring all workers already in the union to remain as union members.