8 Terms
Contributors in Labor relations
Labor relations
Seniority
Labor; Labor relations
A worker's length of service with an employer. In union contracts, seniority often determines layoffs from work and recalls back to work.
Secondary boycott
Labor; Labor relations
An effort to disrupt the business of an employer through boycott techniques, even though his own workers are not directly involved in the labour dispute.
Scab
Labor; Labor relations
A worker who refuses to join the union or who works while others are striking. Also known as a "strikebreaker. "
Sabotage
Labor; Labor relations
From the French word "sabot" or wooden shoe which workers threw into the machines to keep them from working. Workers have been perpetually fearful that new machines would take their jobs away from ...
Supplemental unemployment benefits
Labor; Labor relations
A provision in the union contract which provides laid off workers with benefits in addition to unemployment compensation.
Stoolpigeon
Labor; Labor relations
A person hired by an employer to infiltrate the union and report on its activities.
Stretchout
Labor; Labor relations
A workload increase that does not grant a commensurate pay increase.
