Labor relations

Labor relations

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grievance committee

Labor; Labor relations

A committee within the local union which processes grievances arising from the violation of the contract, state or federal law, or an abuse of a shop's past practice.

government by injunction

Labor; Labor relations

The use of the injunction by government to break strikes.

Reference to partisans of the Greenback Party and the Greenback Labor Party of the 1870s. Greenbackers advocated increased issues of paper money to make cash more readily available to people. They ...

free rider

Labor; Labor relations

A worker in the bargaining unit who refuses to join the union but accepts all the benefits negotiated by the union. Also called a "freeloader. "

friendly societies

Labor; Labor relations

Early labor groups formed by workers for social and philanthropic purposes.

fringe benefits

Labor; Labor relations

Negotiated gains other than wages such as vacations, holidays, pensions, insurance and supplemental unemployment benefits.

gag order

Labor; Labor relations

President Theodore Roosevelt issued an executive order dubbed by unions "the gag order" which forbade federal employees on pain of dismissal to seek legislation on their behalf except through their ...