trade unionist

trade union | American Dictionary

trade union
noun[ C ]
a labor union

trade union | Business English

trade union
noun
 WORKPLACE, HRukus(UK also trades union); (US also labor union)
an organization that represents the people who work in a particular industry, protects their rights, and agrees on pay, hours, etc. with their employers:
75% of the country's paid labour force are not members of a trade union.
The Labour party emerged from within the trade union movement.
a trade union activist/leader/member
a trade union official/representative
belong to/form/join a trade union
recognize a trade union

Examples of trade union

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Nationally based tradeunion and employers organisations are unwilling to relinquish the necessary power to allow it to happen.
Not only did a tradeunion have to be recognised by the employers, but also it had to be 'representative'.
By the end of 1902 tradeunion energy was running out and the employers had successfully reorganised their opposition to strike activity.
The divergence of its achievements may be the main reason why tradeunion policy is so far behind.
Elster illustrates this using a wage negotiation game between a government and a tradeunion.
It often means removing tradeunion immunities, removing the limit on the hours people work, and phasing out collective bargaining agreements.
After this she and her colleagues became more determined to forge ahead with the tradeunion.
Part three focuses on the fraught industrial relations of the waterfront and the struggles to create a tradeunion among this casual, but skilled, workforce.
Thus, a tradeunion might offer discounts on holidays to its members, and threaten non-members with ostracism.
It was the distribution of the ' surplus ' to non-producing shareholders which aroused tradeunion anger, rather than the creation of profits themselves.
This central fact skewed the policy calculations of employers, tradeunion leaders, reformers, and public officials.
The tradeunion began a blockade, or a boycott, which meant that it prevented transport to and from the two firms.
For the millowners, the function of a genuine tradeunion was to reconcile the workers to their imperatives.
They also raised the issues of free maintenance for schoolchildren, secular education, and the payment of tradeunion rates for board employees.
The success of the tradeunion movement is evaluated in the light of disadvantages facing it.
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