The phrase "collective complaint" is both correct and usable in written English.
It is commonly used to refer to a complaint or grievance that is expressed by a group of people rather than an individual. Example: The employees of the company filed a collective complaint against their boss for unfair treatment and lack of communication.
The NUJ's evidence to the inquiry is understood to have contained multiple accusations of bullying against a single senior executive, who was named in a collective complaint by more than 20 people.
The NUJ submitted more than 70 pieces of testimony to the Rose review, including multiple accusations of bullying against a single senior executive who was named in a collective complaint by more than 20 people.
"The members have however mandated that should they not be paid fully up to date by tomorrow (16 December) a collective complaint to the Scottish Premier League will still to be lodged.
But it is getting easier to see that opposition for what it is: the collective complaint of a group of Angelenos who have benefited from remarkable policy largesse (hello, Prop. 13!) and are used to setting the political agenda — and who helped create the urban conditions many of the rest of us are anxious to fix.
When I asked Affable Business Man to address their collective complaint, he said he couldn't really understand it, but that if a woman is "dragging her feet" and going too slow, he'll think she either has something to hide or isn't interested.
The Independent understands that investigations are ongoing into collective complaints against several BBC managers, including at least one individual who is the subject of more than 20 complaints.
The claims of bullying are understood to have been made in a collective formal complaint by the National Union of Journalists.
But there has been no collective or official complaint.
The government rigidly controls demonstrations, but the collective submission of a complaint remains a means for ordinary people to exert pressure.
"This is an industry that even extremely well-developed regulatory states like those in the US have had problems with," Meg Satterthwaite, a lawyer and professor at New York University who assisted the collective in drafting its complaint, told VICE News.
After swapping horror stories of surgeries gone wrong, dodgy procedures, and mounting bills, the dentist's victims formed a collective in 2013 to file complaints against him.
