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trade union en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. An organization whose members belong to the same trade and that acts collectively to address common issues.
   • When the first wave of postwar immigrants arrived in Britain in the 1950s and ’60s, it was a period of rising wages, full employment, an expanding welfare state and strong trade unions. Today, Britain’s manufacturing base has all but disappeared, working-class communities have disintegrated, unions have been neutered and the welfare state has begun to crumble. 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times:
   • , labour union (Canada), labor union (Canada, US)

Forms

Deriveds

trade unionism · trade unionist

Relateds

enterprise union

Synonyms

union

Translations (117)

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