trades union

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trades union - an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job"labor union, trade union, union, brotherhoodorganization, organisation - a group of people who work togetherindustrial union, vertical union - a labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craftcraft union - a labor union whose membership is restricted to workers in a particular craftcompany union - a union of workers for a single company; a union not affiliated with a larger unionlabor movement, trade union movement, labor - an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movementI.W.W., Industrial Workers of the World, IWW - a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War I