shopcraft
Americannoun
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any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
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the members of any such trade.
Etymology
Origin of shopcraft
Example Sentences
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While most railroad unions accepted 5% increases months ago, the Machinists and five other shopcraft unions held out for more.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ignoring a Labor Department plea for a seven-day delay, four shopcraft unions culminated more than a year of stop-and-go negotiations by striking the sprawling Union Pacific Railroad.
From Time Magazine Archive
To prevent 137,000 workers in six shopcraft unions from tying up 138 railroads by taking a walk, Johnson had to request special legislation from Congress extending the strike deadline by 20 days.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though a strike that would snarl the nation's rail system is possible, the indications are that the signalmen will await the outcome of contract talks involving the larger shopcraft unions before pressing their demands.
From Time Magazine Archive
This treason calls forth an indignant exclamation, "Oh priestcraft, shopcraft, how do ye effeminate The minds of men!"
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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