English > labor union: 1 sense > noun 1, group| Meaning | An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer. |
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| Synonyms | union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood |
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| Part of | labor movement, trade union movement, labor | An organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement |
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| Narrower | Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, I.W.W. | A former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States |
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| company union | A union of workers for a single company |
| craft union | A labor union whose membership is restricted to workers in a particular craft |
| industrial union, vertical union | A labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft |
| Broader | organization, organisation | A group of people who work together |
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| Spanish | sindicato, sindicatos |
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| Catalan | sindical, sindicat |
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