Flashcards: Labour relations

The working poor are working people whose incomes fall below a given poverty line.

The workweek and weekend are those complementary parts of the week devoted to labour and rest, respectively.

Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries.

Precarity is a precarious existence, lacking in predictability, job security, material or psychological welfare.

A lockout is a temporary work stoppage or denial of employment initiated by the management of a company during a labor dispute.

Wage labour (also wage labor in American English) is the socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer, where the worker sells their labour under a formal or informal employment contract.

Anti-capitalism encompasses a wide variety of movements, ideas and attitudes that oppose capitalism.

A leave of absence (LOA) is a period of time that one must be away from one's primary job, while maintaining the status of employee.

(For the holiday in Australia, see Labour Day.) The eight-hour day movement or 40-hour week movement, also known as the short-time movement, was started by James Deb and had its origins in the Industrial Revolution in Britain, where industrial production in large factories transformed working life.

Overtime is the amount of time someone works beyond normal working hours.

The European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) is the independent research and training institute of the European Trade Union Confederation ETUC.

Power harassment is harassment or unwelcome attention of a political nature, often occurring in the environment of a workplace including hospitals, schools and universities.

United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is a student organization founded in 1998 with chapters at over 250 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.

United States labor law sets the rights and duties for employees, labor unions, and employers in the United States.

Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (German: Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag, DIHK).

"Solidarity Forever", written by Ralph Chaplin in 1915, is perhaps the most famous union anthem.

The South Asian Regional Trade Union Council (SARTUC) is a federation of national trade union centers whose geographic scope covers South Asia.

The Wassenaar Agreement was an agreement reached in 1982 between employers' organisations and labour unions in the Netherlands to restrain wage growth in return for the adoption of policies to combat unemployment and inflation, such as reductions in working hours and the expansion of part-time employment.

Social Movement Unionism is a trend of theory and practice in contemporary trade unionism.

A user revolt is a social conflict in which users of a website collectively and openly protest a website host's or administrator's instructions for using the website.

An open shop is a place of employment at which one is not required to join or financially support a union (closed shop) as a condition of hiring or continued employment.

The National Day of Mourning, or Workers’ Mourning Day is observed in Canada on 28 April.

The Council of European Professional and Managerial Staff (EUROCADRES) is an recognised cross-industry social partner in the European Social Dialogue and in collective bargaining, representing Professional and Managerial Staff (P&MS) in Europe.

Labor relations is the study and practice of managing unionized employment situations.