piecard
nounEtymology From pie + card, in reference to the cards formerly issued by unions that entitled workers to free meals or accommodation. Piecewise doublet of pie chart.
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Derogatory, Slang A union official who is on the side of the boss rather than that of the workers.
- "Piecards!" said Jackie. "They've become sell-out, fuckin' piecards. Corrupt bureaucrats."1989, Milt Felsen, The Anti-Warrior: A Memoir, page 133:
- Although crusty old piecards knew that Kirkland (whom A.H. Raskin apotheosized as 'a leader of supreme intelligence') was really an emperor without clothes, a discreet, bureaucratic silence froze the doubts and suspicions […]1999, Mike Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream, page 267: