variants
or less commonly antilabor
: opposed to or hostile toward the interests and aims of labor organizations
anti-labor laws
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His National Labor Relations Board was laden with anti-labor ideologues.
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Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
As the economist James Forder has shown, the myth of the Phillips curve as a choice between inflation and labor costs was created by an anti-labor cost sentiment among economists.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
And there's little indication that the pro-worker rhetoric coming out of the RNC will translate into policy — in Trump's first term, his policies were broadly viewed as anti-labor.
—Emily Peck, Axios, 19 July 2024
Biden has nominated her to another term, but the Senate hasn’t yet acted — and recently, even with its narrow Democratic majority, has shown itself to be willing to take an anti-labor stance, such as when Big Business challenges nominees to the Department of Labor.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
That would be a sad reason for Republicans to fumble their anti-labor strategy, but the fumble itself is still a fortunate outcome for anyone who cares about labor rights.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
Hollywood actor and longtime political activist Martin Sheen is set to become the face of the U.S. anti-labor trafficking movement.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2023
The nationwide anti-labor hysteria that followed set the campaign back, but only temporarily.
—Fred Turner, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
In 2011, the state’s Supreme Court, overruling a lower court’s order, upheld Act 10, Walker’s signature anti-labor law, which all but eliminated collective-bargaining rights for public employees in Wisconsin.
—Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
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Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
As the economist James Forder has shown, the myth of the Phillips curve as a choice between inflation and labor costs was created by an anti-labor cost sentiment among economists.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
And there's little indication that the pro-worker rhetoric coming out of the RNC will translate into policy — in Trump's first term, his policies were broadly viewed as anti-labor.
—Emily Peck, Axios, 19 July 2024
Biden has nominated her to another term, but the Senate hasn’t yet acted — and recently, even with its narrow Democratic majority, has shown itself to be willing to take an anti-labor stance, such as when Big Business challenges nominees to the Department of Labor.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
That would be a sad reason for Republicans to fumble their anti-labor strategy, but the fumble itself is still a fortunate outcome for anyone who cares about labor rights.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
Hollywood actor and longtime political activist Martin Sheen is set to become the face of the U.S. anti-labor trafficking movement.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2023
The nationwide anti-labor hysteria that followed set the campaign back, but only temporarily.
—Fred Turner, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
In 2011, the state’s Supreme Court, overruling a lower court’s order, upheld Act 10, Walker’s signature anti-labor law, which all but eliminated collective-bargaining rights for public employees in Wisconsin.
—Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
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