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Trade Union Movement

Definition: Trade Union Movement

Trade Union Movement

Noun

1. An organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action especially via labor unions (especially the leaders of this movement).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Trade Union Movement

Synonyms: labor (n), labor movement (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Trade Union Movement

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Politics of the Possible: The Brazilian Rural Workers' Trade Union Movement, 1964-1985 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Trade Union Movement

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Business

Obras Sociales - Union-Run Employee Healthcare System What has distinguished the Argentine trade union movement from its U.S. counterpart is its highly evolved structure of social benefit programs, known as Obras Sociales. (references)

Economic History

Philippines

The trade union movement is divided and rarely speaks with a single voice. (references)

Nicaragua

The high unemployment rate has eroded the strength of the trade union movement. (references)

Barbados

Trade unions, and the leaders of the trade union movement, enjoy a unique and generally respected position in Barbados. (references)

Political Economy

Sweden

The party has strong ties to the trade union movement and has made reducing unemployment a top priority. (references)

Australia

The ALP maintains close ties to the trade union movement, and many of its leading lights are former trade union leaders. (references)

Poland

The Polish trade union movement, the engine of the social movement that precipitated communism's collapse in the 1980's, has occasionally been problematic for foreign investors, particularly when managers of newly privatized state enterprises have instituted management changes. (references)

Worker Rights

Lesotho

The labor and trade union movement was very weak and fragmented. (references)

Guyana

There is a tradition of close ties between the trade union movement and political parties. (references)

Mauritius

The Constitution explicitly protects the right of workers to associate in trade unions, and there is an active trade union movement. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Anagrams: Trade Union Movement

Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-i-m-m-n-n-n-o-o-r-t-t-u-v"

-5 letters: endeavourment, mountaineered, undeterminate, unentertained.

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Alternative Orthography: Trade Union Movement


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 72 61 64 65      55 6E 69 6F 6E      4D 6F 76 65 6D 65 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01110010 01100001 01100100 01100101 00100000 01010101 01101110 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01001101 01101111 01110110 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#100 &#101 &#32 &#85 &#110 &#105 &#111 &#110 &#32 &#77 &#111 &#118 &#101 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0061 0064 0065      0055 006E 0069 006F 006E      004D 006F 0076 0065 006D 0065 006E 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54846770712558075818024781887179718086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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