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: --
The success of the trade union movement is evaluated in the light of disadvantages facing it.
They also raised the issues of free maintenance for schoolchildren, secular education, and the payment of trade union rates for board employees.
For the millowners, the function of a genuine trade union was to reconcile the workers to their imperatives.
The trade union began a blockade, or a boycott, which meant that it prevented transport to and from the two firms.
This central fact skewed the policy calculations of employers, trade union leaders, reformers, and public officials.
It was the distribution of the ' surplus ' to non-producing shareholders which aroused trade union anger, rather than the creation of profits themselves.
Thus, a trade union might offer discounts on holidays to its members, and threaten non-members with ostracism.
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.
