print unions

British  

plural noun

1. the trade unions within the printing industry

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Example Sentences

His tenure at the Sunday Times came to an end following a strike by print unions that closed the paper for a year and forced the proprietor, Roy Thomson, to sell Times Newspapers to Rupert Murdoch.

From BBC

Evans’ successful run at the Sunday Times was disrupted in 1977 by the nation’s print unions, who resisted the newspaper industry’s move to using electronic typesetting.

From Los Angeles Times

When the print unions resisted,Murdoch fired 5,500 printers.

From Salon

Almost 30 years after the beginning of the Wapping dispute, in which Rupert Murdoch took on the newspaper industry’s print unions, old Fleet Street is all but a memory.

From The Guardian

At its core were the print unions.

From The Guardian