labor spy

noun

1. an employee who is used by management to spy on union activities.

Example Sentences

Written in just three days, the play has no real story: a meeting between taxi drivers and a treacherous union leader urging them to capitulate to big business is the backdrop for allegorical scenes of depression despair, so archetypal that Odets gives them generic names: "The Young Hack and His Girl"; "Labor Spy Episode"; "Interne Episode".

From The Guardian

Published last autumn by Bobbs-Merrill Co. was a $2.50 volume called Labor Spy, purporting to be the autobiography of a crack operative who spent 20 years at his trade.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a previous appearance before the La Follette committee last summer, Pinkerton officials admitted that U. S. employers had paid the agency $1,750,000 for labor spy and strikebreaking services since 1933.

From Time Magazine Archive

He's well-known in labor spy circles.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was he who did "The Labor Spy" series for The New Republic; and another series of his exposes is appearing in that publication now.

From Time Magazine Archive