What is another word for trade union?

Pronunciation: [tɹˈe͡ɪd jˈuːni͡ən] (IPA)

A trade union, also known as a labor union or a workers' union, is an organization that represents and protects the rights and interests of employees in their workplace. Some other synonyms for trade union include guild, association, brotherhood, and professional organization. Guilds traditionally referred to groups of skilled workers in closely related industries such as carpenters, blacksmiths, and musicians. Brotherhood can also imply a sense of solidarity and camaraderie among members. Association and professional organization tend to have a more formal and business-like connotation, although all of these terms convey the idea of collective action and shared advocacy.

Synonyms for Trade union:

What are the hypernyms for Trade union?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    labor union, trade association, labor organization, labor assembly, labor congregation, labor federation, workers' collective, workers' organization, workers' union.

Famous quotes with Trade union

  • I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.
    Saffron Burrows
  • The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
    Henry George
  • There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.
    Susan George
  • The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
    Samuel Gompers
  • There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.
    Bob Hawke

Related words: trade union definition, trade union goals, trade union case study, trade unions in the UK, trade unions in France, trade unions in Japan

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