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Labor union

noun

An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer. Synonyms: brotherhood, trade union, trades union, union.

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"Labor union" Quotes from Famous Books

... man went to the boss of a labor union. "Why," he asked, "do you spend your days breeding discontent and leading strikes?" "Why?" repeated the leader fiercely, "that the workers receive more pay for shorter hours." "No," whispered a laborer, "we are teaching the World the sacred value ...

— The Vision Spendid • William MacLeod Raine

... on a strike," said the manufacturer, with a certain grim humor of his own; I never heard anything more dramatic than the account he once gave of the way he broke up a labor union. "I have seen a good many of ...

— A Traveler from Altruria: Romance • W. D. Howells

... the whole critical situation was discussed and all present joined in demanding that Kerensky continue in office. The political parties represented were the Social Democrats, the Socialist-Revolutionists, the Democratic Radicals, the Labor Union party, the Popular Socialists, and the Constitutional Democrats. From these groups came an appeal which Kerensky could ...

— Bolshevism - The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy • John Spargo

Words linked to "Labor union" : Industrial Workers of the World, brotherhood, labor movement, IWW, labor, craft union, trade union movement, trades union, organisation, industrial union, organization, I.W.W., vertical union, company union