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labor relations

plural noun

the relations between management and labor, especially with respect to the maintenance of agreements, collective bargaining, etc.:
The firm had excellent labor relations and therefore few work stoppages.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of labor relations¹

First recorded in 1940–45

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It also has questioned the administration’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, removal of members of the National Labor Relations Board and the Federal Trade Commission, and attacks on several law firms whose legal work had riled the president.

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A complaint issued Monday by a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board accused Amazon of illegally refusing to negotiate with employees after a majority signed union authorization cards in the fall.

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A group of planners, designers, and field technicians at Southern California Edison on Thursday filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board.

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His appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, the principal administrative agency handling labor-management conflict, interpreted the 90-year old National Labor Relations Act so as to enhance the rights of workers to organize.

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Together they wish to take a wrecking ball to labor law, asserting that the 90-year-old National Labor Relations Act and the independent agency it established are unconstitutional.

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Labor Party laborsaving

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