anti-labor
adjective
an·ti-la·bor
ˌan-tē-ˈlā-bər 
ˌan-tī-
ˌan-tī-
variants
or less commonly antilabor
: opposed to or hostile toward the interests and aims of labor organizations
anti-labor laws
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In 2020, a coalition of ten trade unions, farmers’ organizations, and students’ groups in India organized the largest general strike in human history to protest a new set of anti-labor, anti-farmer laws.
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Literary Hub, 31 Jan. 2026
The editorial takes pains to quote the school board, the board president and the Illinois Policy Institute, a right-wing and anti-labor organization, without any quotes from the association or its president.
—Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
In the wrong hands, mid tech is an anti-labor hammer.
—Tressie McMillan Cottom, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
Most union observers worry that the second Trump administration will follow the same sort of anti-labor roadmap as the first.
—Emily Peck, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
His National Labor Relations Board was laden with anti-labor ideologues.
—Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
As the economist James Forder has shown, the myth of the Phillips curve as a choice between inflation and labor costs was created by an anti-labor cost sentiment among economists.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
Biden has nominated her to another term, but the Senate hasn’t yet acted — and recently, even with its narrow Democratic majority, has shown itself to be willing to take an anti-labor stance, such as when Big Business challenges nominees to the Department of Labor.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
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Literary Hub, 31 Jan. 2026
The editorial takes pains to quote the school board, the board president and the Illinois Policy Institute, a right-wing and anti-labor organization, without any quotes from the association or its president.
—Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
In the wrong hands, mid tech is an anti-labor hammer.
—Tressie McMillan Cottom, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
Most union observers worry that the second Trump administration will follow the same sort of anti-labor roadmap as the first.
—Emily Peck, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
His National Labor Relations Board was laden with anti-labor ideologues.
—Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
As the economist James Forder has shown, the myth of the Phillips curve as a choice between inflation and labor costs was created by an anti-labor cost sentiment among economists.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
Biden has nominated her to another term, but the Senate hasn’t yet acted — and recently, even with its narrow Democratic majority, has shown itself to be willing to take an anti-labor stance, such as when Big Business challenges nominees to the Department of Labor.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
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