company union

American  

noun

1. a labor union dominated by management rather than controlled by the membership.

2. a union confined to employees of one business or corporation.

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company union British  

noun

1. an unaffiliated union of workers usually restricted to a single business enterprise

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Etymology

Origin of company union

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

More than 40 people in the news division were cut, a company union said, though a number of them were later offered jobs elsewhere inside Google.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2024

California will be the first location for the company union partnership.

From Reuters • Apr. 25, 2023

The animators opted to be represented by the confrontational Screen Cartoonists Guild rather than the pro-management "company union," the American Society of Screen Cartoonists.

From Salon • May 16, 2022

The man calling was Marvin Miller, whom I knew of as the labor leader who had transformed the Major League Baseball Players Association from a company union to the most successful labor organization in America.

From Salon • Nov. 28, 2012

Some of the employers put into effect company union plans.

From A History of Trade Unionism in the United States by Perlman, Selig