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an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
you have to join the union in order to get a job
How To Use labor union In A Sentence
- Equally badly behaved, but a little calmer and better informed, were the massive numbers from the labor unions.
- No one would trust a documentary series about labor unions paid for entirely by union funds.
- Lincoln, accused by the right for being too liberal for Arkansas, has been under attack as well by the left, and labor unions, for her "centrism" - specifically, her refusal to support a public option during the health care battle and her opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act ( "card check"). NPR Topics: News
- It is no wonder labor unions holding illegal protests expect the government to be lenient.
- In 2009, some legislators, labor unions, pharmacies and consumer groups raised concerns about potentially anticompetitive and anticonsumer business practices by CVS Caremark. NYT > Home Page
- The press, like the Supreme Court, insists on promoting a false equivalency between labor unions and clandestine corporate donors even though corporations and their industry associations are currently outspending labor unions 25 to 1. Joseph A. Palermo: Civic-Minded Plutocrats
- Right-to-work laws make union membership and dues voluntary for all workers, and they are thus the bete noire of labor unions, which see them as a threat to their political clout. Show Me the Jobs
- The only way this is ever going to be stopped is for us to make a spontaneous voluntary popular start in this country toward having a body for people in general, towards giving a hundred million people in dealing with their politicians, their trusts and labor unions, less bodilessness. The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak
- The usual suspects are labor unions, which have been around for a century.
- LOTHIAN: As President Obama signed executive orders that he says levels the playing field between labor unions and employers, he reached out to what he calls the backbone of the country -- middle class families, people White House spokesman Robert Gibbs suggested the Bush administration ignored. CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2009