Trades Council
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The city’s Hotel and Gaming Trades Council on Monday said it won the union’s largest pay increase in its nearly 100-year history for 30,000 members working at nearly 250 hotels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Collectively, the Service Employees International Union, the Teamsters, California State Pipe Trades Council and the State Assn. of Electrical Workers created a special letterhead with all their logos to show their solidarity on the issue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026
In 1952 she became the first woman president of the Trades Council and a blue plaque was later placed on the Bristol street where she lived.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2025
On Monday, he had just received an endorsement from the 100,000-strong Ohio State Building and Construction Trades Council, when a retired bricklayer, Jeff King, pulled him aside in a weathered union hall in Dayton.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
The strikers were bound by their pledges to the Trades Council not to touch the strike-breakers under any circumstances.
From In the Heart of a Fool by White, William Allen
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