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  • adjective Alternative form of antilabor.

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anti- +‎ labor

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Examples

  • Now he has decided that a political committee for efforts like personhood amendments or anti-labor laws can spend up to $5,000 without reporting who they are or where they came from -- somewhat copying on a smaller scale the Citizens United decision.

    Wade Norris: CO Sec of State Defies Constitution, Overturns Transparency Election Laws Wade Norris 2011

  • On a blog post published at the anti-Starbucks website Brave New Films created, people were encouraged to take pictures of themselves in front of Starbucks stores holding signs targeted at the company's "anti-labor practices."

    Boing Boing 2009

  • But despite the hype being generated by Fox News, and the self-serving propaganda being spread by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the anti-labor crowd has pretty much run out of steam.

    David Macaray: 10 Reasons Why Organized Labor Will Win David Macaray 2012

  • Union officials say they're investing a surprising amount of energy in trying to defeat the push to strip public employees of their bargaining rights because they view this as a precedent setter for a whole range of other coming battles against anti-labor proposals in other states.

    The Plum Line: The stakes in Wisconsin 2011

  • In the heart of the resistance to the anti-labor legislation in Wisconsin, Democracy Now! interviews Peter Rickman, who has been part of the occupation of the State Capitol Building for more than a week to protest the bill.

    Democracy Now!: Popular Uprisings, From the Middle East to the Midwest : Democracy Now! Reports Feb. 22 Democracy Now! 2011

  • But despite the hype being generated by Fox News, and the self-serving propaganda being spread by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the anti-labor crowd has pretty much run out of steam.

    David Macaray: 10 Reasons Why Organized Labor Will Win David Macaray 2012

  • Andrea Stone: Leaders from two unions known to support the Republican Party warned of serious repercussions for GOP candidates in the 2012 elections, saying the onslaught of anti-labor bills in state capitals has shifted their political allegiances.

    HUFFPOST HILL - House Passes Anti-Union Bill Eliot Nelson 2011

  • Does this mean you are anti-labor, which would beg the question, are you even a Democrat?

    Matthew Yglesias » Competition Works 2010

  • Andrea Stone: Leaders from two unions known to support the Republican Party warned of serious repercussions for GOP candidates in the 2012 elections, saying the onslaught of anti-labor bills in state capitals has shifted their political allegiances.

    HUFFPOST HILL - House Passes Anti-Union Bill Eliot Nelson 2011

  • I get unwanted literature in the mail regularly from his office, and in spite of requests to halt the flow of mailings, his office continues sending anti-labor union drivel to my house.

    DeMint: Senate could've voted on TSA chief 'months ago' 2009

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