labor movement

noun

labor unions collectively:
The labor movement supported the bill.
the complex of organizations and individuals supporting and advocating improved conditions for labor.
the effort of organized labor and its supporters to bring about improved conditions for the worker, as through collective bargaining:
Their activities proved more harmful than helpful to the labor movement.

labor movement

The movement of workers for better treatment by employers, particularly through the formation of labor unions .

First recorded in 1865–70

Public sector unions have also fractured the labor movement itself.

“When you attack public sector unions now, you are attacking the heart of the U.S. labor movement,” says Dine.

She got involved with the early labor movement and with tenement reform.

To the modern right, the labor movement was the scourge of America when it had real power.

But in truth, its labor movement is held hostage by the past.

The labor movement was beginning to shape itself into solidarity towards political as well as industrial activity.

Then, too, the opposition parties and press seized upon agrarianism and Owen's alleged atheism to brand the whole labor movement.

But the most characteristic labor movement of the forties was a resurgence of the old Agrarianism of the twenties.

The few national trade unions which were formed at the close of the fifties did not constitute by themselves a labor movement.

During its six years' existence it ran the gamut of all important issues which agitated the labor movement of the time.

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