0 an organization that represents the people who work in a particular industry, protects their rights, and discusses their pay and working conditions with employers:
1 a labor union
2 an organization that represents the people who work in a particular industry, protects their rights, and agrees on pay, hours, etc. with their employers:
Nationally based trade union and employers organisations are unwilling to relinquish the necessary power to allow it to happen.
Not only did a trade union have to be recognised by the employers, but also it had to be 'representative'.
By the end of 1902 trade union energy was running out and the employers had successfully reorganised their opposition to strike activity.
The divergence of its achievements may be the main reason why trade union policy is so far behind.
Elster illustrates this using a wage negotiation game between a government and a trade union.
It often means removing trade union immunities, removing the limit on the hours people work, and phasing out collective bargaining agreements.
After this she and her colleagues became more determined to forge ahead with the trade union.
Part three focuses on the fraught industrial relations of the waterfront and the struggles to create a trade union among this casual, but skilled, workforce.
