trade union

noun

trade unionism noun
trade unionist noun

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Overall, trade unions involved in bargaining believe that AI significantly impacts the workplace. Oludolapo Makinde, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025 The nation’s President, Yoon Suk-yeol, who was a prosecutor before being groomed for leadership by the People Power Party, had spent the past few years turning the machinery of the state against political opponents, trade unions, and journalists who criticized him. E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 4 June 2025 Still, the moral force of the papacy has sometimes moved political tides – most recently in the emergence of the independent trade union movement Solidarity in communist Poland after the 1978 election of Pope John Paul II, the first Polish pontiff. Ned Temko, Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2025 The local, which is part of the national trade union American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, represents roughly 5,000 state employees who work in healthcare and social services. William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 6 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for trade union

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First Known Use

1828, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of trade union was in 1828

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“Trade union.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trade%20union. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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trade union

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trade unionist noun

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trade union

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