trade union movement
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- noun
- /treɪd ˈjunɪn ˈmuːvmənt/
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movimiento sindical
- The trade union movement successfully advocated for better working conditions and fair wages for all employees.
Examples
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The National Negro Labor Council was founded in 1951 as a black-led organization within the trade union movement.
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Labor's quiescence from the early 1920s to the early 1930s provided few opportunities for strikebreaking, but the trade union movement experienced a dramatic revival after 1933.
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Does this not show that we are the true Workers Party now and the modern and the modern trade union movement for hard working people?
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What was the relationship between various sectarian groups and the trade union movement?
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Indeed, workers believe that "under the cover of economic crisis" the government tries to eliminate the trade union movement and its class representation.
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There are also militant sections of the trade union movement, especially municipal workers.
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The lack of a coherent alternative economic program also weakened the impact of the unions, as did fragmentation within the trade union movement.
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By the early 1980s, the independent trade union movement was making its mark with the famous ABC strikes by metalworkers, which peaked in 1980-81.
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Second, the Canadian trade union movement rejected concession bargaining in the early 1980s, to which many attribute its subsequent organizational successes.
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The labor rebellion created two initially linked mass movements: the People's National Party (PNP), which had a largely middle-class base under the leadership of Norman Manley; and the trade union movement under the leadership of Alexander Bustamante.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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An organized group of workers and unions trying to get better pay and conditions
How Widespread
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: a 'trade union' (workers' organization) combined with 'movement' (a collective effort) yields an organized effort by unions to pursue shared goals. This construction follows standard noun + noun + noun composition and has close parallels in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Trade union movement comes from the image of people in the same trade joining together in a union and marching as a movement to ask for better pay and safer work. That's why it now means an organized effort by 'workers' to gain better pay, 'rights', and working conditions.