Meaning of trade union in English

trade union

/ˌtreɪd ˈjuː.ni.ən/ us

/ˌtreɪd ˈjuː.ni.ən/

(UK also trades union); (US labor union)

an organization that represents the people who work in a particular industry, protects their rights, and discusses their pay and working conditions with employers:

The government's proposals have been strongly criticized by the trade unions.

The rally was organized by local trade union officials.

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union

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Industrial relations

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trade unionism

trade unionist

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trade union

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a labor union

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trade union | Business English

trade union

noun

WORKPLACE, HR

(UK also trades union); (US also labor union)

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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

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Nationally based trade union and employers organisations are unwilling to relinquish the necessary power to allow it to happen.

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Not only did a trade union have to be recognised by the employers, but also it had to be 'representative'.

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By the end of 1902 trade union energy was running out and the employers had successfully reorganised their opposition to strike activity.

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The divergence of its achievements may be the main reason why trade union policy is so far behind.

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Elster illustrates this using a wage negotiation game between a government and a trade union.

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It often means removing trade union immunities, removing the limit on the hours people work, and phasing out collective bargaining agreements.

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After this she and her colleagues became more determined to forge ahead with the trade union.

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Part three focuses on the fraught industrial relations of the waterfront and the struggles to create a trade union among this casual, but skilled, workforce.

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Thus, a trade union might offer discounts on holidays to its members, and threaten non-members with ostracism.

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It was the distribution of the ' surplus ' to non-producing shareholders which aroused trade union anger, rather than the creation of profits themselves.

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This central fact skewed the policy calculations of employers, trade union leaders, reformers, and public officials.

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The trade union began a blockade, or a boycott, which meant that it prevented transport to and from the two firms.

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For the millowners, the function of a genuine trade union was to reconcile the workers to their imperatives.

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They also raised the issues of free maintenance for schoolchildren, secular education, and the payment of trade union rates for board employees.

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The success of the trade union movement is evaluated in the light of disadvantages facing it.

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