industrial union

noun

|Updated on: 21 May 2018

Definition of industrial union

: a labor union open to workers in an industry irrespective of their occupation or craft — compare craft union

Recent Examples of industrial union from the Web

Think about it: A huge amount of what America consumes is made overseas, with the implicit consent of the nation’s now nearly neutered industrial unions.

— louis uchitelle, New York Times, "How the Loss of Union Power Has Hurt American Manufacturing," 20 Apr. 2018
Instead, the core groups behind the New Deal — industrial unions, African Americans, and urban liberals — transformed the party from below.

— eric schickler, Vox, "Debunking the myth that “identity politics” is bad for the Democratic Party," 21 Apr. 2018
Trump, who won the district by 20 percentage points in 2016, is due to make his second stop on Republican candidate Rick Saccone’s behalf Saturday, days after announcing a new steel tariff plan celebrated by industrial unions.

— Washington Post, "Pennsylvania vote to test labor’s strength and loyalty," 7 Mar. 2018
The first indication that something is amiss with that position is that the NLRA was limited to industrial unions when it was enacted in 1935—and for good reason.

— richard a. epstein, Newsweek, "Is the Supreme Court About to Hobble Labor Unions?," 23 Feb. 2018
Low unemployment gives wage negotiators a chance to press for higher pay deals as many have done so far this year, including IG Metall, Germany’s biggest industrial union.

— Washington Post, "Eurozone unemployment edges down to lowest in over 9 years," 1 Mar. 2018
The United Steelworkers, the country’s largest industrial union, and companies that forge steel and aluminum have united in pushing for import restrictions.

— ana swanson, New York Times, "Trump Tells Lawmakers He’s Mulling Limits on Imported Steel," 13 Feb. 2018
Macron backs Alstom-Siemens merger to take on Chinese giant Trump ignores May’s lobbying as Bombardier slapped with tariff Emmanuel Macron says Europe must form a solid industrial union to compete with the U.S. and China.

— helene fouquet, Bloomberg.com, "Theresa May's Difficult Day Burnishes Macron's Plan for Europe," 27 Sep. 2017
Government employee unions still adhere to the Democrats, but the leaders of industrial unions, who now represent only a single-digit percentage of the workforce, are belatedly beginning to have second thoughts.

— george melloan, WSJ, "Democrats Have the Green Party Blues," 6 Sep. 2017

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