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Answer for the clue "Act of forming labor unions ", 12 letters:
unionization

Word definitions for unionization in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. The act of forming a union. Etymology 2 n. The opposite of ionization.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. act of forming labor unions; "the issue underlying the strike was unionization" [syn: unionisation ]

Usage examples of unionization.

Workers at stores in Brossard, near Montreal, and in Windsor, Ontario, voted against unionization by 74 percent and 75 percent, respectively.

Having folded the classic unionization campaign led by Mike Leonard from 1999 into 2004, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union resumed its war against Wal-Mart in the spring of 2005 with a new strategy and a host of new allies.

The defeat kept unionization from the Carnegie plants well into the twentieth century, and the workers took wage cuts and increases in hours without organized resistance.