unionisation
Noun: 1. The process or act of workers forming or joining a labor union: It refers to the collective action of employees to organize themselves into a union to represent their interests in negotiations with an employer. 2. The state of being represented by a labor union: It can also describe the condition or extent to which a workforce is organized into unions.
The term "unionisation" (also spelled "unionization") is used primarily in the context of labor relations, economics, and industrial action. It is a formal noun describing a process or a resulting state. - It is often discussed in terms of rates (e.g., high unionisation) or efforts (e.g., a campaign for unionisation). - The process of unionisation typically involves workers signing authorization cards, holding elections, and gaining formal recognition from an employer or a labor board.
- As a process:
- The unionisation of the factory workers took over a year of dedicated organizing.
- The new law was designed to make unionisation easier for employees in the service sector.
- As a state/condition:
- The country has a very low rate of unionisation in the technology industry.
- After successful unionisation, the employees gained better health benefits.
- "Drive for unionisation": A concerted effort or campaign to organize workers into a union.
- The drive for unionisation among retail employees gained national attention.
- "Barriers to unionisation": Obstacles that make it difficult for workers to form a union.
- Intimidation and complex legal processes are significant barriers to unionisation.
- Unionize (verb): To form or cause to form into a labor union.
- The workers voted to unionize.
- Union (noun): An organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
- She is a member of the teachers' union.
- Unionized (adjective):
- (Labor context) Having formed or joined a labor union.
- A unionized workforce.
- (Chemistry context) Combined with or subjected to the action of a union. (Note: This is a different meaning and a different word from the labor context.)
- Organization (in the specific context of labor)
- Unionizing (the verbal noun form)
- Collective bargaining: The negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees.
- Unionisation gives workers the power of collective bargaining.
- Labor rights: The legal rights and claimed human rights relating to labor relations between workers and employers.
- The fight for unionisation is fundamentally a fight for labor rights.
- act of forming labor unions
- the issue underlying the strike was unionization