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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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Ken Delacruz, a leader of Connecticut's Metal Trades Union, on whether the union should endorse the Democratic senator in his primary, June 27
Several industry groups, including the National Electrical and Communications Association and the Electrical Trades Union, have expressed concern about falling apprenticeship numbers and the lack of vocational guidance for young people who might otherwise be attracted to trades.
The local building trades union wants all the contracts let with funds from just-approved Measure K to be subject to a project labor agreement, where the work goes to union shops or adheres to union rules and pay scales.
 
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