grievance committee

noun

1. a group of representatives chosen from a labor union or from both labor and management to consider and remedy workers' grievances.

Word History and Origins

Origin of grievance committee¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

When the grievance committee, led by a Copé associate, declared Copé the winner again, Fillon demanded a re-vote; Copé dug in.

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Then, never had he been approached by a Grievance Committee.

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Now the grievance committee came with an ultimatum to the management.

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It was thus no small shock when Wickes announced one day that a Grievance Committee wished to interview him.

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It has stood the test of years and if the old method were resumed a grievance committee would probably wait on the management.

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The ex-conductor gets hungry, the sympathetic grievance committee, not knowing what is for its own best interests, intercedes.

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