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Definition of Trade 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"

Definition of Trade union

1. Noun. An organization whose members belong to the same trade and that acts collectively to address common issues. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trade Union

Literary usage of Trade union

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. British Trade Unionism Against the Trades Union Congress by Gerald Allen Dorfman (1983)
"The Problem of trade union Purpose. THE PROBLEM OF UNION-GOVERNMENT RELATIONS IN BRITAIN The disruptive power of unions in Britain has been painfully ..."

2. The History of Trade Unionism by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1902)
"But no salaried officer of the trade union world feels it to be his business to improve the Labour Code for any industry but his own. ..."

3. The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-earners by Samuel Peter Orth (1921)
"Like the Federation, each particular trade union has a tripartite structure: there ... The sovereign authority of a trade union is its general convention, ..."

4. The Labour Gazette by Canada Dept. of Labour (1902)
"trade union LEGISLATION. Legislation in regard to organized labour in Canada ... Definition of trade union. Under this Act a trade union is defined as 'such ..."

5. Industrial Democracy by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1897)
"It is therefore important to consider to what extent the constitutional problems of trade union democracy are analogous to those of national or municipal ..."

6. Democracy and Liberty by William Edward Hartpole, Lecky (1896)
"The trade union Act of 1871 remedied this evil. It enabled all trade unions, even though they were acting in restraint of trade, to obtain full corporate ..."

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