vertical union

noun

1. industrial union.

vertical union

noun

1. another name (esp US) for industrial union

Word History and Origins

Origin of vertical union¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

Inclusion of those groups with newswriters, said he, "is nothing more than a surreptitious effort to impose a vertical union for strike purposes."

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It was further unfortunate that the Guild, created in the days of vertical union development, grouped reporters and copy editors with a miscellany of workers whose only relation to the profession of journalism is that they worked in the same building.

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A so-called "vertical" union, it embraces all sorts of employees, from editorial writers to janitors, who have little contact with each other.

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His daughter Kathryn's catch-all District 50, the most vertical union in the world, fresh from a new conquest of some 1,000 former Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen members on the Long Island Railroad, will have full membership�A.F. of L.'s craft-union tradition notwithstanding.

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Likewise typesetters, pressmen, engravers and binders should join forces for one vertical union in the printing industry.

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