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industrial union
noun
- a labor union composed of workers in various trades and crafts within one industry.
industrial union
noun
- See craft uniona labour organization in which all workers in a given industry are eligible for membership Compare craft union
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Origin of industrial union1
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It is unquestionably the strongest industrial union in the world.
And now a new industrial union is to be launched in Chicago.
This was an industrial union, founded in 1869, embracing labor of all trades, and held together by a secret organization.
The industrial union, they say, is to be the administrative unit in the future industrial democracy.
The American Labor Union was very decidedly an industrial union—more, however, by anticipation than realization.
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