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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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Trade unions representing workers at Alitalia remained wary on Tuesday after meeting with a little-known Italian financier who has expressed an interest in buying a stake in the airline.
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) recently released data showing a 1% decline in average earnings for full-time workers representing the first reduction of real wages since the introduction of the GST in 2001.
that could tend to its interests without the help of government agencies; however, democracy absolutely demanded that workers escape the arbitrary power of their employers, becoming free to join trade unions and act in politics for their own benefit, a task that took priority.
 
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