Unions - Stay or Go?

Corrine C. (United States of America)
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  1. organized labor
    employees who are represented by a labor union
    He united the famously fractious movement, reknit its emotional connection with allies ranging from students to national Democratic leaders, and brought the decline of organized labor to the forefront of the national agenda.
  2. outsource
    obtain goods or services from an external supplier
    They participate in shareholder meetings, where they’re focused on things like job quality and resisting outsourcing.
  3. unionized
    not converted into ions
    It doesn’t end their seemingly decades-long slide into irrelevance—fewer than 7 percent of private workers are unionized, down from about 25 percent in the 1970s.
  4. sustainable
    capable of being prolonged
    They push back on business models that they don’t consider sustainable for their workers or, increasingly, for the environment.
  5. John Kenneth Galbraith
    United States economist who served as ambassador to India
    Second, unions are a powerful, sophisticated player concerned with more than just the next quarter’s profit reports—what economist John Kenneth Galbraith called a “countervailing power” in an economy dominated by large corporations.
  6. hidebound
    stubbornly inflexible and narrow-minded
    It can be myopic and hidebound.
  7. myopic
    unable to see distant objects clearly
    It can be myopic and hidebound.
  8. countervail
    oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions
    Second, unions are a powerful, sophisticated player concerned with more than just the next quarter’s profit reports—what economist John Kenneth Galbraith called a “countervailing power” in an economy dominated by large corporations.
  9. political system
    the members of a social organization who are in power
    Finally, unions bring some semblance of balance to the political system.
  10. irrelevance
    the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand
    It doesn’t end their seemingly decades-long slide into irrelevance—fewer than 7 percent of private workers are unionized, down from about 25 percent in the 1970s.
  11. collective bargaining
    negotiation between an employer and a trade union
    Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s effort two weeks ago to end collective bargaining for public employees in his state was the worst thing to happen to the union movement in recent memory—until it unexpectedly became the best thing to happen to the union movement in recent memory.
  12. organized
    methodical and efficient in arrangement or function
    He united the famously fractious movement, reknit its emotional connection with allies ranging from students to national Democratic leaders, and brought the decline of organized labor to the forefront of the national agenda.
  13. fractious
    easily irritated or annoyed
    He united the famously fractious movement, reknit its emotional connection with allies ranging from students to national Democratic leaders, and brought the decline of organized labor to the forefront of the national agenda.
  14. affordable
    reasonably priced
    The Civil Rights Act, the weekend, and the Affordable Care Act are all examples of organized labor fighting for laws that benefited not just the unionized.
  15. strategically
    with regard to strategy
    A lot of what happens in politics is, unfortunately, the result of moneyed, organized interests who lobby strategically and patiently to get their way.
  16. labor
    any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
    He united the famously fractious movement, reknit its emotional connection with allies ranging from students to national Democratic leaders, and brought the decline of organized labor to the forefront of the national agenda.
  17. bargaining
    the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement
    Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s effort two weeks ago to end collective bargaining for public employees in his state was the worst thing to happen to the union movement in recent memory—until it unexpectedly became the best thing to happen to the union movement in recent memory.
  18. corporation
    a business firm recognized by law as a single body
    Second, unions are a powerful, sophisticated player concerned with more than just the next quarter’s profit reports—what economist John Kenneth Galbraith called a “countervailing power” in an economy dominated by large corporations.
  19. leverage
    the mechanical advantage gained by a machine on a fulcrum
    First, they give workers a voice within—and, when necessary, leverage against—their employer.
  20. paraphrase
    express the same message in different words
    But to paraphrase Tolstoy’s insight about families, all institutions are broken in their own unique ways.
  21. distributor
    a person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion
    In an economy with a tendency toward bigness—where big producers are negotiating with big retailers and big distributors—workers need a big advocate of their own.
  22. reprisal
    a retaliatory action against an enemy
    That means higher wages, but it also means that workers can go to their managers with safety concerns or ideas to improve efficiency and know that they’ll not only get a hearing, they’ll be protected from possible reprisals.
  23. shareholder
    someone who owns stock in a corporation
    They participate in shareholder meetings, where they’re focused on things like job quality and resisting outsourcing.
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