union card

noun

|Updated on: 6 Jun 2018

Definition of union card

1 : a card certifying personal membership in good standing in a labor union

2 : something that resembles a union card especially in being necessary for employment or in providing evidence of in-group status

Recent Examples of union card from the Web

And then aid them as a network of graduates of that program to then get jobs, get their union cards, move into the industry, et cetera.

— recode staff, Recode, "Full video and transcript: 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch at Code 2018," 30 May 2018
Soon after graduating from ASU and earning his Actors’ Equity union card by booking professional productions at Phoenix Theatre, Cartell spent three years in Tokyo, working for Disney and meeting his now-wife, then moved to New York in May 2006.

— kerry lengel, azcentral, "ASU alum Nick Cartell returns to Gammage as star of 'Les Miserables'," 15 May 2018
Then there’s the worry that this would set a precedent, allowing that future President Warren to codify, say, union card check.

— kimberley a. strassel, WSJ, "Use Nafta to Ease Regulation," 12 Apr. 2018
Democrats could have increased the penalties for violating labor law, enabled unions to circumvent the election process if a majority of workers signed union cards (a.k.a.

— eric levitz, Daily Intelligencer, "Democrats Paid a Huge Price For Letting Unions Die," 26 Jan. 2018
His mother was a roadie for Little Richard and Chuck Berry; his birth certificate is an IA union card.

— james lynch, Popular Mechanics, "Every Night Perfect," 5 Sep. 2017
Representatives for the union drive say that a majority of the newsroom has signed union cards in support of the effort.

— benjamin mullin, WSJ, "L.A. Times’s New Chief Plots Changes and Woos a Beleaguered Newsroom," 24 Oct. 2017

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in the meaning defined at sense 1

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