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unionismu‧nion‧is‧m /ˈjuːnjənɪzəm/ noun [uncountable] - Boal was a successful barrister who combined staunch unionism with a left-of-centre position on social and economic issues.
- His autobiography makes it clear that Terence O'Neill had no sympathy with what he saw as parochial unionism.
- Mormon religious leaders generally became conservative Republicans who spoke out against trade unionism and welfare programs.
- The closed shop and the wildcat strike have undermined the legitimacy of modern trade unionism.
- The expansion of white-collar unionism was a particular feature of the most recent phase.
- The reason for the change points again to the essential dilemma trade unionism faced.
- The survey holds even more dispiriting news for unionism.
- Union leaders say he supports the concept of unionism, and rank-and-file workers call him a friend.
► Labour Relations/UnionsAFL-CIO, the, black, verbblackleg, nounbrotherhood, nouncard vote, nounchapel, nounclosed shop, nouncollective bargaining, nounfeather bedding, nounflying picket, nounfree collective bargaining, noungeneral strike, noungo-slow, nounindustrial action, nounindustrial relations, nounindustrial tribunal, nounlabor union, nounlabour relations, nounlocal, nounnon-cooperation, nounnon-union, adjectiveorganize, verbout, adverbpicket, nounpicket, verbrestrictive practices, nounscab, nounshop steward, nounsick-out, nounstrikebreaker, nounstriker, nountrade union, noununion, noununionism, noununionize, verbwalkout, nounwildcat strike, nounwork-to-rule, noun NOUN► trade· Student activity and the resurgence of trade unionism, already discussed, were obvious facets of thus new version of steadfastness.· But his concern for profit margins kept wage levels low and he was intensely suspicious of trade unionism.· And it remains finally to ask what place there was for trade unionism in the Labour Party's revised prospectus.· The reason for the change points again to the essential dilemma trade unionism faced.· His book has interesting passages about the author's boyhood and his later disenchantment with trade unionism.· Did unemployment, economic depression and the General Strike reduce trade unionism to a pitiful weakness?· Their functional link severed, Co-operation and trade unionism went on separately to join the system they could not defeat.· But by the close of the decade militant trade unionism had been literally eradicated in the private sector. belief in the principles of trade unions—unionist noun [countable] |