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collective bargaining

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Collective bargaining is negotiating pay for all the workers at once. Collective bargaining rights, through collective bargaining, a collective bargaining agreement.

The whole point is the imbalance it corrects, since one worker has no leverage and all of them together do. The term was coined in 1891 by the economist and reformer Beatrice Webb.

Definitions of collective bargaining

  1. 1nouncollective bargainingNegotiating pay for all the workers at once.C1

    “Through collective bargaining, the union won a pay rise for every nurse in the hospital.”

collective bargaining is a negotiating.

Where it comes from

Coined in 1891 by Beatrice Webb, the economist and social reformer.

coined by Beatrice Webb in 1891.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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