10 Terms
Contributors in Labor relations
Labor relations
strike
Labor; Labor relations
A temporary work stoppage by workers to support their demands on an employer. Also called a "turn out" early in the nineteenth century.
subcontracting
Labor; Labor relations
The practice of employers getting work done by an outside contractor and not by workers in the bargaining unit. Also called "contracting out. "
supplemental unemployment benefits
Labor; Labor relations
A provision in the union contract which provides laid off workers with benefits in addition to unemployment compensation.
stoolpigeon
Labor; Labor relations
A person hired by an employer to infiltrate the union and report on its activities.
stretchout
Labor; Labor relations
A workload increase that does not grant a commensurate pay increase.
state sovereignty
Labor; Labor relations
The idea that the state is king and public employees had no right to make demands on it. In 1949 a New York court said: To tolerate or recognize any combination of civil service employees of the ...
social unionism
Labor; Labor relations
Unions which look beyond immediate objectives to try to reform social conditions and which also consider unionism as a means of appealing to needs of members which are not strictly economic. In ...
