company union
- noun
- Specialized
:
sindicato de empresa
- In the past, many workers felt safer joining a company union rather than a national union that might not address their specific needs.
Examples
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Local power company union officials showed papers to the Huntsville Utilities crews that seemed to indicate that the crews would have to join the local union or otherwise be union-affiliated in order to work in that area.
Blog text (31) -
The factory workers formed a company union to ensure their rights were represented independently from national groups.
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This advice led to one of the first company unions.
Academic text (2017) -
It gets attached to a singular union (a company union).
Blog text (32) -
By 1913, however, #2634 had absorbed the company union, and the company ceased funding #1048.
Academic text (1996) -
One of his duties was to deal with the company union, a tame and basically satisfied organization that Uncle Roland practically goaded into a strike.
Academic text (2005) -
Yet the company was able to create a company union, while SETMI had difficulty maintaining its legal status (Brooks and Tate 1999, 36).
Academic text (2002) -
After much discussion, the employees decided to establish a company union to negotiate directly with management.
How Employer-Controlled
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The core meaning — a union belonging to or representing the workers of a single company — is directly and compositionally derived from 'company' + 'union' and follows a common noun‑noun compounding pattern found cross‑linguistically. Specialized connotations about independence from national unions or employer control are pragmatic/ideological details that a B1 learner might not infer, but the basic referent is transparent from the constituents.
Etymology
Company union: The noun company union comes from the idea of a company forming its own union, like a workers' club set up and run by the boss. Because the club is started by management and may speak for the employer, today company union means a union 'controlled by the employer'.