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industrial union

noun

  1. a labor union composed of workers in various trades and crafts within one industry.


industrial union

noun

  1. a labour organization in which all workers in a given industry are eligible for membership Compare craft union
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of industrial union1

First recorded in 1920–25
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Example Sentences

It is unquestionably the strongest industrial union in the world.

And now a new industrial union is to be launched in Chicago.

This was an industrial union, founded in 1869, embracing labor of all trades, and held together by a secret organization.

The industrial union, they say, is to be the administrative unit in the future industrial democracy.

The American Labor Union was very decidedly an industrial union—more, however, by anticipation than realization.

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