labor organizer
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4.8
- noun
- /ˈleɪbər ˈɔrɡəˌnaɪzər/
- US
:
organizador laboral
- As a dedicated labor organizer, she worked tirelessly to help workers secure better wages and working conditions.
- labor organizer and anarchist
- socialist labor organizer
Examples
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Acuff is America's best-known and foremost labor organizer.
Blog text (6) -
The Federation hired him as a labor organizer soon after his arrival.
Academic text (1997) -
My father was a labor organizer.
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One of my sons is a labor organizer, and he protests and is arrested a lot.
Blog text (22) -
There he tracked down the labor organizers he had befriended at a civil rights conference.
Fiction book (2002) -
Micah Uetricht is a labor organizer in Chicago and a contributing writer to In These Times.
Blog text (29) -
I pictured Emory's friends, the ones I'd met, the gruff, flannel-shirted labor organizers that he lived with.
Fiction book (2002) -
Stewart Acuff is America's best-known and foremost labor organizer.
Blog text (34) -
"I look forward to seeing Efren move forward as a Democrat in politics," said Marie Gil, a Santa Rosa labor organizer who touted the supervisor's story to several.
Blog text (24) -
As a result, according to Richard Rothstein, a labor organizer and columnist for the Spanish-language La Opinion, "In the garment districts of Los Angeles, New York, or Miami, entire plants are staffed by immigrants from the same village in Mexico, El Salvador, or China."
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
149
2.8
A person who plans events and asks people to join a group or cause
49
2.9
A person who finds and hires people for a company or group
10
3.2
A person who organizes and speaks for workers, often in a union
1
3.8
A person who helps workers get better pay and safer jobs
How Influential
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'labor' (workers) with 'organizer' (a person who organizes); a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer a person who organizes or mobilizes workers. This noun–noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern for agentive role descriptions, so it should be immediately comprehensible to learners.
Etymology
The phrase labor organizer comes from the simple idea of a person who brings labor ('workers') together: an organizer arranges meetings, talks to people, and helps them form a 'union'. That's why today a labor organizer means someone who recruits and supports workers to win better pay and rights.