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vertical union

vertical union

noun

  1. another name (esp US) for industrial 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 vertical union1

First recorded in 1930–35
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Example Sentences

Inclusion of those groups with newswriters, said he, "is nothing more than a surreptitious effort to impose a vertical union for strike purposes."

It was further unfortunate that the Guild, created in the days of vertical union development, grouped reporters and copy editors with a miscellany of workers whose only relation to the profession of journalism is that they worked in the same building.

A so-called "vertical" union, it embraces all sorts of employees, from editorial writers to janitors, who have little contact with each other.

His daughter Kathryn's catch-all District 50, the most vertical union in the world, fresh from a new conquest of some 1,000 former Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen members on the Long Island Railroad, will have full membership�A.F. of L.'s craft-union tradition notwithstanding.

Likewise typesetters, pressmen, engravers and binders should join forces for one vertical union in the printing industry.

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