industrial union

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

Origin of industrial union

1
First recorded in 1920–25

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How to use industrial union in a sentence

  • It is unquestionably the strongest industrial union in the world.

    The I.W.W. | Paul Frederick Brissenden
  • And now a new industrial union is to be launched in Chicago.

    The I.W.W. | Paul Frederick Brissenden
  • This was an industrial union, founded in 1869, embracing labor of all trades, and held together by a secret organization.

    The New Nation | Frederic L. Paxson
  • The industrial union, they say, is to be the administrative unit in the future industrial democracy.

    The I.W.W. | Paul Frederick Brissenden
  • The American Labor Union was very decidedly an industrial union—more, however, by anticipation than realization.

    The I.W.W. | Paul Frederick Brissenden

British Dictionary definitions for industrial union

industrial union

noun
  1. a labour organization in which all workers in a given industry are eligible for membership: Compare craft union

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