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union card

noun

  1. a card identifying one as a member of a particular labor union.


union card

noun

  1. a membership card for a trade union


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Word History and Origins

Origin of union card1

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

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Example Sentences

So when her colleagues began signing union cards with the United Food and Commercial Workers union in October, Holland was completely onboard.

Many of you do not know that he holds a union card—the printers elected him to honorary membership more than a year ago.

Turning from the applause, he introduced Ben Spence as "a labor lawyer, with a union card in place of a heart."

But you—a union card dirtied in your pocket, you, a Judas to your kind—you got no place in a room with decent men.

He didn't like the idea of calling his crew scabs for the engineer carried a union card.

He could not get the last without a union card, he must take anything, and so he applied from store to store.

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