单词 | trade union movement |
释义 | > as lemmastrade union movement a. With the first element in the singular form, as trade union leader, trade union membership, trade union movement, trade union official, etc. ΚΠ 1829 Foreign Q. Rev. Nov. 373 The working classes are in a state of perpetual hostility with their masters, and may be said in the trade union clubs to keep a standing treasury for carrying on the war. 1911 C. E. Persons et al. Labor Laws 115 One of its members, Edward H. Rogers, a trade union leader, made some half-hearted recommendations. 1926 Brit. Gaz. 12 May 1/4 Every man who does his duty by the country and remains at work or returns to work during the present crisis will be protected by the State from loss of trade union benefits. 1927 A. M. Carr-Saunders & D. C. Jones Surv. Social Struct. Eng. & Wales 51 Trade-union officials. 1927 A. M. Carr-Saunders & D. C. Jones Surv. Social Struct. Eng. & Wales 77 Trade-union membership advances in waves. 1934 H. L. Beales & R. S. Lambert Mem. Unemployed 72 I had found my position in the trade union movement considerably weakened during my period of unemployment. 1936 G. B. Shaw Millionairess iii, in Simpleton, Six, & Millionairess 174 You might as well ask me to pay trade union wages as do all that the inspector wants: I should be out of business in a week. 1976 Daily Tel. 20 July 2/5 When will the British public, 81·5 per cent of whom have no trade union affiliation, realize how rapidly our freedoms are being eroded. 1988 Jrnl. Lat. Amer. Stud 20 115 Important sectors of the trade union bureaucracy. 2005 M. Lewycka Short Hist. Tractors in Ukrainian xxvii. 279 You can do that in a developed industrial country with a strong trade union movement. < as lemmas |
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