craft union
Skilled workers' association
A craft union organizes workers by their specific trade or skill rather than by the industry they work in.
Carpenters, electricians, and plumbers each have their own craft unions, regardless of whether they work in construction, manufacturing, or elsewhere.
This contrasts with industrial unions, which organize all workers in an industry regardless of occupation.
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- work stoppageOrganized cessation of labor
- carpentryWood construction trade
- labor movementOrganized effort for worker rights
- grievance procedureSystem for lodging formal complaints
guild · plumbing · printing · blacksmithing · glassblowing · woodworking · wage negotiation · masonry · journeyman · apprenticeship · trade school · labor laws · welding · worker cooperative · closed shop · hiring hall · tailoring · skilled trades
- labor unionsAFL-CIO, Teamsters, locals, shop steward, stewards
- unionsorganized labor, trade unionists, shop stewards, stewards, AFL-CIO
- organizationsorganization, organizations, company, companies, club
craft unionmanagement
Organizing and directing resources
trade association · open shop · chamber of commerce · right-to-work · business lobby
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