organized labor

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The coordinated teachers campaign in California takes a page from organized labor in other industries, including autos and hotels, said Rebecca Givan, an associate professor of labor studies and employment relations at Rutgers University.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

That raises another potential impediment for state lawmakers hoping to goose the factory-built model: organized labor.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

Over decades, Peronism built up strong loyalty and territorial control in the province by forging close ties to organized labor and grassroots organizations, handing out pensions for retired manual laborers and stipends for young mothers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

Does all of this mean that organized labor law is a doomed dinosaur, irrevocably headed toward irrelevance?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025

In the city’s richest clubs, industrialists gathered to toast the fact that Carter Henry Harrison, whom they viewed as overly sympathetic to organized labor, had lost to Hempstead Washburne, a Republican.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson