labor leader

/ˌleɪbər ˌlidər/

Other forms: labor leaders

Definitions of labor leader

1. noun

   a leader of a labor movement
   examples:

   Harry Bridges

   United States labor leader who organized the longshoremen (1901-1990)

   Cesar Estrada Chavez

   United States labor leader who organized farm workers (born 1927)

   Samuel Gompers

   United States labor leader (born in England) who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1886 to 1924 (1850-1924)

   William Green

   United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952)

   William Dudley Haywood

   United States labor leader and militant socialist who was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (1869-1928)

   James Riddle Hoffa

   United States labor leader who was president of the Teamsters Union; he was jailed for trying to bribe a judge and later disappeared and is assumed to have been murdered (1913-1975)

   Mary Harris Jones

   United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930)

   John Llewelly Lewis

   United States labor leader who was president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960 and president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1935 to 1940 (1880-1969)

   George Meany

   United States labor leader who was the first president of the AFL-CIO (1894-1980)

   John Mitchell

   United States labor leader; president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1898 to 1908 (1870-1919)

   Lech Walesa

   Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943)

   type of:

   leader

   a person who rules or guides or inspires others