How to Use labor relations in a Sentence

labor relations

noun
  • Shawn Fain is out to change labor relations in the U.S.
    Phoebe Wall Howard, The Courier-Journal, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Once the state’s labor relations agency counts and certifies the votes, the group becomes a union.
    Claire Stremple, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Many of them, if not most of them, have hired as their chief labor relations officers people who came from the studio and the network side of the business.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Health care, rent control, labor relations, or anything else -- the story is always the same.
    Matthew Lau, National Review, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Reddit said in its investor prospectus that its labor relations are good.
    Paresh Dave, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
  • But, Stead noted there are exceptions — when state money is involved — in which a state has a hand in private-sector labor relations.
    Sarah MacAraeg, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2024
  • As my colleagues Meg James and Wendy Lee wrote, labor relations of late have been characterized by a high degree of frustration, fear and distrust.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The expiration of that agreement in 1987 marked a dramatic and litigious turning point in NFL labor relations.
    Chris Deubert, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Adam Carlisle, vice president of labor relations at Southwest Airlines, said Southwest was proud of the deal and disappointed to learn union leaders voted it down.
    Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 21 June 2023
  • Niccol says labor relations are good and that unionization will only hinder them.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The issue has dogged labor relations with Ascension, although the company has denied it.
    Reed Abelson, New York Times, 23 May 2024
  • But the extension was a rare piece of good labor relations news for an auto industry that is reluctant to meet workers’ demands at the bargaining table.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The Reds soon traded Flood, setting up his battle for free agency in the seventies, which would change American sporting and labor relations forever.
    Brandon Harris, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Higgins, who teaches about topics including airline labor relations, said that in order to strike, airline workers have to follow a lengthy process laid out in the Railway Labor Act.
    Hannah Sampson, Natalie B. Compton, Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2023
  • Michael D’Angelo, a vice president of labor relations at Hyatt, said the company is disappointed the union is considering a strike.
    Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • Under Calhoun, labor relations at Boeing have been badly frayed.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The campaign could shift labor relations at ProPublica, which is one of few national news outlets of its size and distinction where staffers do not have union representation.
    Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
  • Next, while federal law is uniform across state lines, laws vary from state to state in areas related to overtime, employee discrimination, wage and hours, and labor relations.
    Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • And while the potential economic benefits for states such as Arizona are huge, critics worry about side issues such as labor relations, pollution and high water use.
    Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2024
  • His debut, Thief, about a freelance crook extorted by crime bosses, has gained pride of place in the personal canons of admirers who respond to its withering view of capitalist labor relations.
    John Semley, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
  • But the Railway Labor Act, the arcane century-old federal law that controls labor relations at railroads and airlines, means that passengers don’t need to worry about a strike starting anytime soon.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Smith had worked at several law firms in Portland during the course of his crimes, rising to partner and specializing in labor relations representing management.
    oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The dozens of workers at the SRW recycling center say their strike has become the longest in postwar German history — a dubious honor in a nation with a history of harmonious labor relations.
    Erika Solomon, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The union subsequently filed a labor relations charge, prompting the commissioner to offer an apology, Badger said.
    Elizabeth Koh, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Adair, who had a long career at International Paper, including in labor relations for the company, also predicted a shift in how people think about unions if that happens.
    Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2024
  • The problem of extreme heat is affecting labor relations throughout the delivery industry.
    Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The companies’ respective heads of labor relations must find consensus among themselves on often evolving proposals and counteroffers and sell them to their own C-suites, each of which evaluates the potential deals based on different corporate goals.
    Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Fain said in his letter to Volvo Trucks' head of labor relations that employees working early today will exit the factories after performing tasks needed to prevent damage to company equipment.
    Arkansas Online, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Fain said in his letter to Volvo Trucks’ head of labor relations that employees working early Monday will exit the factories after performing tasks needed to prevent damage to company equipment.
    Tom Krisher, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
  • In some families, domestic relations are just another kind of labor relations.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023

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