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industrial relations

NOUN
links between management and laborers
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Many passengers had been at their wits' end as the operator struggled to fulfil its timetable and suffered from poor industrial relations.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

The next year, Qantas was fined a record A$90m following a years-long industrial relations dispute after it outsourced its Australian ground handling operations, sacking 1,800 staff.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

An industrial relations showdown looms this week as Germany's powerful IG Metall union is seeking to gain control of the works council at US billionaire Elon Musk's Tesla plant outside Berlin.

From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026

This concept of collective agreement has underpinned industrial relations in Sweden for nearly a century.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2025

I propose to return to it in the concluding chapter of these papers, but for the present it is only noted in connection with the general scheme of industrial relations.

From The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice by Stephen Leacock


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