big labor

alternative big labour · alternative Big Labor · alternative Big Labour

1. capitalizedsometimesuncountableLarge trade unions or labor unions collectively, understood as having significant economic, political, or societal influence.

   Some fear that Big Labor will one day form its own party and attempt to capture government.

   1955 December 19, “Editorial: Is “Big Labor” Good or Bad?”, in Life, retrieved 17 Dec 2011, page 28

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   Among U.S. city governments, few have been more strongly controlled by big labor than Minneapolis (pop. 560700)

   1957 June 24, “National Affairs: Defeat for Labor”, in Time

   The political battles raging in states across America are cast as about whether big labor retains its considerable clout. . . . The reality is that the U.S. labor movement has steadily lost influence, politically, socially and economically.

   2011 March 6, Albert R. Hunt, “In the U.S., Big Labor Just Isn't That Big”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 Dec 2011

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of big labor.