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INDUSTRIAL UNION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does industrial union mean?
• INDUSTRIAL UNION (noun)
The noun INDUSTRIAL UNION has 1 sense:
1. a labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft
Familiarity information: INDUSTRIAL UNION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
industrial union; vertical union
Hypernyms ("industrial union" is a kind of...):
brotherhood; labor union; trade union; trades union; union (an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "industrial union"):
Teamsters Union (an industrial union of truck drivers and chauffeurs and warehouse workers)
United Mine Workers; United Mine Workers of America (an industrial union of mine workers in North America)
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