Definitions for "Trade union"
Keywords:  workmen, workers, wage, bargain, labour
An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.
Organised association of workmen formed for their protection and promotion of common interests.
an organization of workers who do similar jobs. A trade union exists to take collective action on behalf of its members in negotiations with employers over wages, working conditions, etc. Trade unions are usually composed of skilled or semiskilled workers who have learned a craft.
a large political and social organization of the working class voluntarily established under the leadership of the Vietnamese Communist Party
a voluntary and self governing organization of laboring people established with the object of representing and protecting their rights and occupational and social interests
a body whose main objective is to undertake negotiations on the pay or conditions of service of its members