0 an organization for workers with particular skills
1 a trade union whose members are skilled workers who have the same skill:
It is therefore not to be wondered at if the compact craft unions led by specialists scored successes where the heterogeneous mobs of the Knights of Labor had been doomed from the first.
Growing craft union power strengthened the leadership's ability to fend off the socialists.
Previous to this, core molding had been a skilled position, and the core molders had been represented by their own craft union.
It may be that a general union or a craft union or something of that kind was involved.
I believe a man's membership of his craft union is the corollary of his apprenticeship.
I am myself a member of a craft union.
I can imagine that they would become the most ardent advocates of the "closed shop" principle as applied to a craft union.
Nobody has to join the association or the craft union if they do not want to do so.
