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Trades Council

British  

noun

  1. (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

The longtime president of the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, whose members worked in Trump-associated hotels.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2024

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

A committee from the Amalgamated Trades Council called at the Builders' and Traders' exchange to see the executive committee of the Master Masons' association for the purpose of talking about the strike of the Hodcarriers.

From 30,000 Locked Out. The Great Strike of the Building Trades in Chicago. by James C. Beeks

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