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collective bargaining

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Coined by Beatrice Webb in 1891.[1]

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collective bargaining (uncountable)

  1. A method of negotiation in which employees negotiate as a group with their employers, usually via a trade union.
    • 2022 September 9, Paradise Afshar, “Washington state school district goes on strike”, in CNN‎[2]:
      Educators in a Washington state school district went on strike Friday because the teachers’ union and the Ridgefield School District (RSD) remain at loggerheads following months of collective bargaining negotiations.

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  1. ^ “A Timeline of Events in Modern American Labor Relations”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1], Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (United States), 18 August 2010 (last accessed): “1891: The term “collective bargaining” is first used by Mrs. Sidney Webb, a British labor historian.”
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