Labor Day Vocabulary

the smallest amount of money employers may legally pay their employees

• minimum wage
• wages
• union
• labor

money paid in exchange for work

• wages
• check
• employee
• employer

to form a union

• organize
• demand
• protest
• picket

to claim as one's right; to require

• demand
• organize
• protest
• labor

a person who works for pay in the service of an individual or business

• employee
• employer
• protester
• union

to employ; to give a job

• hire
• organize
• demand
• protest

a person who pays others to work for him or her

• employer
• employee
• union
• picket

work that is hard and usually physical; to work hard

• labor
• strike
• picket
• demand

to walk or stand in front of a business where there is a strike

• picket
• protest
• union
• demand

to complain strongly about

• protest
• picket
• organize
• union