company union
Americannoun
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a labor union dominated by management rather than controlled by the membership.
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a union confined to employees of one business or corporation.
noun
Etymology
Origin of company union
First recorded in 1910–15
Example Sentences
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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
In this they were unwittingly but powerfully aided by the company union.
From The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons by Foster, William Z.
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