Labor relations

Labor relations

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workies

Labor; Labor relations

A nickname for members of the workingmen's associations in the 1820s and '30s.

yellow dog contract

Labor; Labor relations

A contract a worker was compelled to sign stating that he or she would not join a union. The practice was outlawed in 1932 by the passage of the Norris LaCuardia Act.

wobblies

Labor; Labor relations

A nickname for members of the Industrial Workers of the World. The origin of the word is unknown.

white collar workers

Labor; Labor relations

Workers who have office jobs rather than factory, farm, or construction work.

walking delegate

Labor; Labor relations

A unionist who policed jobs to see that workers were getting fair treatment.

Defined by the National Labor Relations Act and by the Taft Hartley Act as practices of discrimination, coercion, and intimidation prohibited to labor and management. Management cannot form company ...