What is "labor unions"

Usage examples of "labor unions".

Planetsmen are no more like the labor unions of Tellus than black is like white.

With all due respect to the labor leaders, who are not to be blamed for volubly asseverating otherwise, terrorism is a well-defined and eminently successful policy of the labor unions.

He controls, or controls the people who control, all the labor unions in the industry, all the people or nearly all the people who vote.

The idea of making the cleaning and dyeing industry into a racket began in Chicago, with a group of labor racketeers who'd infiltrated labor unions in order to manipulate the cleaning and dyeing industry.

Practically every big manufacturing plant in the United States has on its payrolls men acting as engineers, foremen, or laborers who are drawing from $8o to $100 per month as detectives either (1) to keep their employers informed as to the workings of the labor unions, (2) to report to the directors the actual conduct of the business by its salaried officers, superintendents, and overseers, or (3) to ascertain and report to outside competing concerns the methods and processes made use of, the materials utilized, and the exact cost of production.

But his interest in socialism was at best lukewarm (though you can clearly see a lingering distrust of business and an admiration for labor unions in Babbitt).

When his father and brother did say this, he learned something else about business: There were companies, often pretending to be labor unions, whose sole business was to recruit such men.