Definition of collective bargaining in US English:
collective bargaining
nounkəˈlɛktɪv ˈbɑrɡ(ə)nɪŋkəˈlektiv ˈbärɡ(ə)niNG
Negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees.
Example sentencesExamples
- Auckland University was ordered by the Employment Court to participate in collective bargaining earlier this month.
- A few of us battled hard against massed ranks of those claiming that a national minimum wage would destroy the principle of free collective bargaining.
- The final section engages critically with the dynamics of collective bargaining at a global level.
- We simply need a neutral environment with some protections for collective bargaining and organising.
- Five main trade unions are recognized and have negotiation rights on pay and conditions and health and safety via collective bargaining.
- All employees take the gains of collective bargaining negotiated for their particular workgroup by a union, whether or not they are members of it.
- He wanted a pragmatic organization of skilled workers committed to collective bargaining for better wages and conditions.
- Thus, joint regulation of employment through collective bargaining grew in importance while unilateral regulation declined.
- The Fair Trade label would require growers to pay a fair wage and to permit collective bargaining.
- We have now managed to re-establish collective bargaining.
- Details like wages and linking shorter hours to more flexible work organisation were left to collective bargaining.
- That's an issue that is becoming increasing sharp as employers seek to undermine collective bargaining.
- If it's accurate, and it means what it says, it presumably means that unionisation and collective bargaining would be illegal.
- That means that workers do not have the right to organise and conduct collective bargaining, which is something that we take for granted.
- The trend away from traditional national wage contracts and collective bargaining is in full swing.
- Unions use collective bargaining to help set wages and salaries and worker benefits.
- I think the imbalance in collective bargaining is wrong, and I think that the minimum conditions are far too minimal.
- Wage differentials were decreased through government policy and collective bargaining.
- It sought to achieve this by regulating wages and by encouraging collective bargaining.
- Compulsory collective bargaining would impose on employers an obligation to conduct negotiations with trade unions.