bargaining agent

British  

noun

1. an organization, usually a trade union, that acts or bargains on behalf of a group of employees in collective bargaining

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Example Sentences

The Actors’ Equity Association labor union said in a statement Saturday that cast members for the parades and characters departments at Disney’s theme parks near Los Angeles voted by a wide margin for the union to become the bargaining agent for the group of roughly 1,700 workers.

From Seattle Times

Workers at one of the plants elected the union as their bargaining agent last April, while workers at the second location across the street opted against union representation a month later.

From Seattle Times

He was then hired as the assistant to the president of the National Football Conference following the merger of the NFL and the AFL, and then in 1971 as the first full-time executive director of the NFL’s Management Council, the collective bargaining agent of the league’s clubs before being hired by the Seahawks.

From Seattle Times

If the Beaumont employees approve a decertification, it would remove the USW as their bargaining agent.

From Reuters

A new state law set to take effect this month, however, banning collective bargaining by most government employees will still prevent the district from recognizing the union as its bargaining agent.

From Seattle Times