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Trades union

noun

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

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... are outside and not inside. The organizing body should be the heart and centre of the farmers' movement, and if the heart has its allegiance divided, its work will be poor and ineffectual, and very soon the farmers will fall away from it to follow more single-hearted leaders. No trades union would admit representatives of capitalist employers on its committee, and no organization of farmers should allow alien or opposing interest on their councils to clog the machine or betray the cause. This is the best advice I can give reformers. It is the result of many years' ...

— National Being - Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity • (A.E.)George William Russell

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