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When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
P. Chidambaram

Meaning of "trade union" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TRADE UNION

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRADE UNION

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Trade union is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRADE UNION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

trade union

Trade union

A trade union, labour union or labor union is an organization of workers who have united together to achieve common goals such as protecting the integrity of its trade, achieving higher pay and benefits such as health care and retirement, increasing the number of employees an employer assigns to complete the work, safety standards, and better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with employers. The most common purpose of these associations or unions is "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment". This may include the negotiation of wages, work rules, complaint procedures, rules governing hiring, firing and promotion of workers, benefits, workplace safety and policies. Unions may organize a particular section of skilled workers, a cross-section of workers from various trades, or attempt to organize all workers within a particular industry. The agreements negotiated by a union are binding on the rank and file members and the employer and in some cases on other non-member workers.

Definition of trade union in the English dictionary

The definition of trade union in the dictionary is an association of employees formed to improve their incomes and working conditions by collective bargaining with the employer or employer organizations.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRADE UNION

trade gap
trade journal
trade mission
trade name
trade on
trade paper
trade plate
trade price
trade reference
trade returns
trade route
trade school
trade secret
trade surplus
trade talks
trade unionism
trade unionist
trade up
trade war
trade wind

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRADE UNION

Anglican Communion
art union
bunion
communion
company union
craft union
credit union
customs union
disunion
grunion
Holy Communion
industrial union
labor union
management union
nonunion
opinion
reunion
rugby union
students´ union
trades union
union

Synonyms and antonyms of trade union in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «trade union» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRADE UNION

Find out the translation of trade union to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of trade union from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «trade union» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

工会
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sindicato
570 millions of speakers

English

trade union
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ट्रेड यूनियन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نِقَابَةُ عُمَّال
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

профсоюз
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sindicato
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শ্রমকল্যাণ সমিতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

syndicat
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesatuan sekerja
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gewerkschaft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

労働組合
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

노동조합
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Perdagangan serikat
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

công đoàn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தொழிற்சங்கம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

व्यापारी संघ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ticaret Birliği
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sindacato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

związek zawodowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

профспілка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sindicat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συνδικάτο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vakbond
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fackförening
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fagforening
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of trade union

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRADE UNION»

The term «trade union» is quite widely used and occupies the 35.155 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRADE UNION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about trade union

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10 QUOTES WITH «TRADE UNION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word trade union.
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Saffron Burrows
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.
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Jez Butterworth
My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off.
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P. Chidambaram
When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
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Angela Davis
Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.
5
Henry George
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
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Susan 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.
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Samuel Gompers
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.
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Bob Gunton
I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.
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Robert Harris
I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the tenets of Thatcherism by the party of Keir Hardie: trade union legislation, Europe, the replacement of Trident, 10 per cent tax for people who have made millions from their companies.
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Bob Hawke
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.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRADE UNION»

Discover the use of trade union in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to trade union and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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International Handbook of Trade Unions
This book is essential for contextual reading in any major university and will be of particular relevance to those studying economics or the social sciences.' – Ronan O'Beirne, Reference Reviews 'The chapters are of uniformly very high ...
John T. Addison, Claus Schnabel, 2003
2
The Economics of the Trade Union
This book analyses the crucial features of unionised labour markets.
Alison L. Booth, 1995
3
Gendering and Diversifying Trade Union Leadership
Examining the experiences of leadership among trade unionists in a range of unions and labor movements around the world, this volume addresses perspectives of women and men from a range of identities such as race/ethnicity, sexuality, and ...
Sue Ledwith, Lise Lotte Hansen, 2013
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From Consent to Coercion: The Assault on Trade Union Freedoms
Published Under the Garamond Imprint From Consent to Coercion addresses several of the key issues about the future of unions and social democratic policies in Canada.
Leo Panitch, Donald Swartz, 2003
5
Union Organizing: Campaigning for Trade Union Recognition
This book considers exactly how trade unions are working to do this and provides a much-needed evaluation of these rebuilding strategies.
Gregor Gall, 2003
6
The Art and Ideology of the Trade Union Emblem, 1850-1925
It studies their commissioning, their designers and the social conditions and gender relations that they knowingly or unwittingly reveal. The volume celebrates working-class culture and shows how it could be both innovative and derivative.
Annie Ravenhill-Johnson, Paula James, 2013
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The Trade Union Woman
This brief account of trade unionism in relation to the working-women of the United States has been written to furnish a handbook of the subject and to supply in convenient form answers to the questions that are daily put to the writer and ...
Alice Henry, 2008
8
Trade Union Revitalisation: Trends and Prospects in 34 Countries
This book is an essential resource for anyone wishing to know about contemporary labour issues.
Craig Phelan, 2007
9
A Comparison of the Trade Union Merger Process in Britain ...
Focusing on trade union mergers in Britain and Germany, and drawing on interviews with senior policy-makers, this book addresses reasons for mergers, examines the conclusion processes, and analyses costs and benefits for post-merger ...
Jeremy Waddington, Marcus Kahmann, Jürgen Hoffman, 2005
10
Unions in a Contrary World: The Future of the Australian ...
This book explains the decline in trade union participation, looking at both macro and micro levels.
David Peetz, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRADE UNION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term trade union is used in the context of the following news items.
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Jeremy Corbyn steams ahead in Labour leadership race as another …
Jeremy Corbyn took another step towards winning the Labour leadership on 30 July by gaining the support of a trade union which hailed him as the man to ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
2
Biggest crackdown on trade unions for 30 years launched by …
The biggest crackdown on trade union rights for 30 years will be unveiled on Wednesday, including new plans to criminalise picketing, permit employers to hire ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
Commissioner questions Bill Shorten's credibility at royal …
The Labor leader defends his record in a press conference after day two of the trade union royal commission where he was rebuked by commissioner Dyson ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
Trade unions threaten national travel chaos with summer of …
Members of four trade unions are involved in rows over pay, jobs, working conditions and services across seven transport companies. The strikes come as the ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Union in EU threat over PM's plan to curtail worker rights
Some trade unions could push for Britain to quit the EU if member states allow David Cameron to water down worker rights as part of his renegotiation, the GMB ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
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Trade unions say 'no guarantees' of support in EU referendum
UK trade unions are threatening to abandon the cause of EU membership during the forthcoming referendum campaign, in a warning to David Cameron over his ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»
7
RMT trade union cancels planned national rail-strike
Plans for a UK-wide strike have been cancelled, after trade union negotiators accepted a fresh offer from Network Rail authorities. «CommonSpace, May 15»
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UK's biggest trade union threatens to cut ties with Labour Party
But trade union Unite, which has 1.42 million members, has warned Labour to tread ... His intervention has underscored the strong influence trade unions have ... «Reuters UK, May 15»
9
Trade unions ask coal workers to observe militant strike
Trade Unions in the coal sector on Saturday asked their members to go on a five-day ... At least one trade union, the Indian National Mineworkers Federation, ... «The Hindu, Jan 15»
10
Weak EU 2030 climate deal risks nearly a million jobs, warn unions
Trade union leaders in Brussels call for strong EU climate and energy targets, ... at a summit starting on Thursday, according to the head of Europe's trade union ... «The Guardian, Oct 14»

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