How to Use labor relations in a Sentence

labor relations

noun
  • Fitzsimmons has worked in labor relations and employment law for more than two decades.
    — Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Reddit said in its investor prospectus that its labor relations are good.
    — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Once the state’s labor relations agency counts and certifies the votes, the group becomes a union.
    — Claire Stremple, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Health care, rent control, labor relations, or anything else -- the story is always the same.
    — Matthew Lau, National Review, 19 Dec. 2023
  • In 2019, as required by that compact, the tribe passed a labor relations law.
    — Sacbee.com, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Niccol says labor relations are good and that unionization will only hinder them.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Fitzsimmons has worked in labor relations and employment law for more than two decades, according to Ford.
    — Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Many of them, if not most of them, have hired as their chief labor relations officers people who came from the studio and the network side of the business.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 Apr. 2023
  • But, Stead noted there are exceptions — when state money is involved — in which a state has a hand in private-sector labor relations.
    — Sarah MacAraeg, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2024
  • In all areas of labor relations, negotiations often take until the last minute.
    — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 25 June 2026
  • Under Calhoun, labor relations at Boeing have been badly frayed.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
  • There is precedent for a president’s involvement in baseball’s labor relations.
    — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The issue has dogged labor relations with Ascension, although the company has denied it.
    — Reed Abelson, New York Times, 23 May 2024
  • Federal workers should not be allowed to collectively bargain, and for the first three decades of modern labor relations law, they weren’t allowed to.
    — The Editors, National Review, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Ortberg brings the right stuff as a seasoned engineer who features a history of promoting smooth labor relations.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 June 2026
  • But the extension was a rare piece of good labor relations news for an auto industry that is reluctant to meet workers’ demands at the bargaining table.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
  • This has been seen when pro leagues and players’ associations litigate against each other during work stoppages caused by breakdowns in labor relations.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The outcome could influence broader labor relations in the and logistics industries.
    — Amir Daftari, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The problem of extreme heat is affecting labor relations throughout the delivery industry.
    — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2023
  • But significant changes in labor relations and unionization didn’t come until the mid-1930s.
    — Robert Forrant, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Next, while federal law is uniform across state lines, laws vary from state to state in areas related to overtime, employee discrimination, wage and hours, and labor relations.
    — Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • An effort by athletes at a public university would depend on state law and policies, and how state labor relations agencies address and administrate the topic.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 June 2026
  • Relations is a program that blends economics, law, and social sciences to prepare students for human resources, labor relations, and other careers.
    — Scott White, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Thus this is intrinsically a story of class differences, involving labor unions and labor relations in general.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Militza Pagan, named the city’s deputy mayor for labor relations by Johnson last week, said there is little evidence that the raises have led to restaurant closures.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Canada’s labor relations board issued a back-to-work order to end the stoppage, extending the prior collective bargaining agreements to late May.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 14 May 2025
  • And while the potential economic benefits for states such as Arizona are huge, critics worry about side issues such as labor relations, pollution and high water use.
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2024
  • Attorneys for the casino have argued that the 2017 agreement said explicitly that the tribe’s code governs labor relations at the casino.
    — JosÉ Luis Villegas, Sacbee.com, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Generally, states can legislate on labor relations only in economic sectors not covered by federal law.
    — Dan Walters, Oc Register, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Generally, states can legislate on labor relations only in economic sectors not covered by federal law.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2025

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