trade unionists
Collective bargaining members
Trade unionists are members or supporters of trade unions—organizations that represent workers in negotiations with employers over wages, conditions, and rights.
The term often carries political connotations, suggesting advocacy for labor rights and collective bargaining: Trade unionists rallied against the proposed cuts to worker protections.
In some contexts, it implies activism or left-leaning politics.
- unionistLabor coalition supporter
- syndicalistsRadical labor organizers
- labor unionsWorker collectives for negotiations
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- working classManual laborers collectively
shop steward · shop floor · strikers · collective bargaining · Samuel Gompers · labor strikes · solidarity · labor rights · living wage · activists · unionization · collective action · picketing · picket line · organizers · labor movement · brothers · walkout
- labor leaderslabor activists
- Labor Movementlabor leaders, labor activists, labor movement, labor organizing, Samuel Gompers
- unionslabor unions, local unions, organized labor, unionization, unionized workforce
- biographiesbiography, biographies, autobiography, autobiographies, memoir
- SocialistsKarl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Lenin, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky
trade unionistsmanagement
Organizing and directing resources
employers · bosses · capitalists · executives · industrialists
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Dried wound coverings
strikebreakers · blacklegs · finks · Pinkertons · rats
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