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trade union
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trade union: see union, labor union, labor, association of workers for the purpose of improving their economic status and working conditions through collective bargaining with employers. Historically there have been two chief types of unions: the horizontal, or craft, union, in which all the
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Faced with a lopsided governor's race and coffers still recovering from massive spending in last year's special election, California labor unions are keeping a relatively low profile in this November's election.
Mesaba Airlines and its labor unions passed a deadline for reaching an agreement on pay cuts at 12:01 a.
Gompers--who so often led the charge for immigration restriction--believed that labor unions were the "schools of democracy" where immigrant workers learned those values.
 
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