VERTICAL UNION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vertical union mean? 

• VERTICAL UNION (noun)
  The noun VERTICAL UNION has 1 sense:

1. a labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft

  Familiarity information: VERTICAL UNION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERTICAL UNION (noun)

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 ("vertical 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 "vertical 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)