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trade union
noun
- a labor union of craftspeople or workers in related crafts, as distinguished from general workers or a union including all workers in an industry.
trade union
noun
- an association of employees formed to improve their incomes and working conditions by collective bargaining with the employer or employer organizations
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Derived Forms
- trade unionist, noun
- trade unionism, noun
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Other Words From
- trade-union adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of trade union1
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Example Sentences
It imploded with the 1978–79 Winter of Discontent, when rampant trade-union militancy brought Britain to a standstill.
The trade union movement was growing and fighting, and every tendency pointed to the fact that a clash of forces was inevitable.
One whole trade union (the Society of Makers Up), asked "to be sent to school, instead of to labour."
The renewed trade-union activities brought forth a fresh crop of trials for conspiracy.
The unequal pace of the price movement drove labor to organize along trade-union lines.
The American trade union movement has suffered much less from this difficulty.
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