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VERTICAL UNION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft
Synonyms:
industrial union; vertical union
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("vertical union" is a kind of...):
brotherhood; labor union; trade union; trades union; union (an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vertical union"):
Teamsters Union (an industrial union of truck drivers and chauffeurs and warehouse workers)
United Mine Workers; United Mine Workers of America (an industrial union of mine workers in North America)
