big labor

noun

variants or Big Labor

: large, politically influential labor unions considered as a group

… he openly disagreed with Big Labor's big-spending agenda …

—Howard Fineman, Newsweek, 9 Aug. 1999

Word History

First Known Use

1893, in the meaning defined above

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