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Definition of Labor union
1. Noun. An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer. "You have to join the union in order to get a job"
Generic synonyms: Organisation, Organization
Specialized synonyms: Industrial Union, Vertical Union, Craft Union, Company Union, I.w.w., Industrial Workers Of The World, Iww
Group relationships: Labor, Labor Movement, Trade Union Movement
Derivative terms: Trade Unionist, Unionize, Unionize
Definition of Labor union
1. Noun. (North America) A continuous association of wage-earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment; a trade union. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Labor Union
Literary usage of Labor union
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The I. W. W.: A Study of American Syndicalism by Paul Frederick Brissenden (1919)
"It was apparently the first labor organization seriously to attempt the organization
of the lumber workers.2 The Western labor union proposed to bring into ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Its predecessors had been the National labor union (1866-72), ... 1881,
representatives from trade-unions, the Amalgamated labor union (a split from the ..."
3. Annual Reportby New York (State), Bureau of Statistics, Dept. of Labor by New York (State), Bureau of Statistics, Dept. of Labor (1904)
"Laborers' Protective Union No. K>~9. AF of L Federal labor union No. ... 7458,
AF of L. 9749, Federal labor union No. ..."
4. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Eugene Allen Gilmore, John Rogers Commons, Helen Laura Sumner (1910)
"F. Sylvis, labor union, Leavenworth, Kansas; HH Day, Financial Reform Association,
... A. McClure, State labor union of Pa.; HO Sheldon, Reform Association, ..."
5. The Labor Movement in America by Richard Theodore Ely (1886)
"I. PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES OF THE NATIONAL labor union. ADOPTED FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER
25, 1868. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all people are ..."
6. The Labor Movement in America by Richard Theodore Ely (1905)
"I. PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES OF THE NATIONAL labor union. ADOPTED FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER
25, 1868. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all people are ..."
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