syndical
8.4
About unions that want workers to control their workplaces
- adjective
- /ˈsɪndɪkəl/
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sindical
- Many syndical organizations aim to improve conditions for laborers across various industries.
Examples
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The syndical movement advocates for workers' rights and collective bargaining.
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Thereafter, they worked semi-clandestinely through the official syndical unions and developed an organizational structure despite the government's attempts at co-optation and repression.
Academic text (1998) -
Third, the system's state orientation tended to encourage syndical leaders to focus on access to resources and to discourage conflict or disagreement with the state.
Academic text (1998) -
The conference addressed syndical strategies to unite different labor unions for greater impact.
Surface Forms
syndical positive
Etymology
A helpful way to remember syndical is to think of syndicalism, a movement where workers form unions to run or control work 'together'. So syndical describes things connected to trade unions and worker control.
