trade union

trade union

English

Alternative forms

• trades union (British)

Pronunciation

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Noun

trade union (plural trade unions or trades unions)

1. An organization whose members belong to the same trade and that acts collectively to address common issues.
   • 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times‎:

     When the first wave of postwar immigrants arrived in Britain in the 1950s and ’60s, it was a period of rising wages, full employment, an expanding welfare state and strong trade unions. Today, Britain’s manufacturing base has all but disappeared, working-class communities have disintegrated, unions have been neutered and the welfare state has begun to crumble.

   Synonym: union, labour union (Canada), labor union (North America)

Usage notes

Some authorities, chiefly in the UK, suggest that the plural of trade union is trade unions when the relevant unions all represent the same trade (for example, "The train drivers were divided between two trade unions."), but trades unions when they represent different trades (for example, "There are hundreds of trades unions in England."). However, trade unions is commonly used for both cases.[1]

Translations

organization

Afrikaans: vakbond, unie (af) Albanian: sindikatë (sq) f, bashkim (sq) m, bashkim profesional m Arabic: اِتِّحَاد نَقَابَة اَلْعَمَال‎ m (ittiḥād naqāba(t) al-ʿamāl), نَقَابَة‎ f (naqāba) Gulf Arabic: نقابة‎ f (niqāba, naqāba) Armenian: արհեստակցական միություն (hy) (arhestakcʿakan miutʿyun), արհմիություն (hy) (arhmiutʿyun) Azerbaijani: həmkarlar ittifaqı Basque: sindikatu (eu) Belarusian: прафсаю́з m (prafsajúz), прафесі́йны саю́з m (prafjesíjny sajúz) Bulgarian: професиона́лен съю́з m (profesionálen sǎjúz), профсъю́з (bg) m (profsǎjúz) Catalan: sindicat (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 工會, 工会 (gung1 wui6-2) Dungan: гунхуэй (gunhuey) Mandarin: 工會／工会 (zh) (gōnghuì) Min Nan: 工會 (zh-min-nan), 工会 (kang-hōe) Czech: odbory m pl Danish: fagforening (da) c Dutch: vakbond (nl) m Esperanto: sindikato Estonian: ametiühing Faroese: arbeiðsmannafelag (fo) n Finnish: ammattiyhdistys (fi) (local), ammattiliitto (fi) (national) French: syndicat (fr) m; (as opposed to an enterprise union), syndicat de métier m, syndicat professionnel (fr) m Georgian: პროფკავშირი (ṗropḳavširi) German: Gewerkschaft (de) f Greek: συντεχνία (el) f (syntechnía), συνδικάτο (el) n (syndikáto) Hebrew: אִגּוּד מִקְצוֹעִי‎ m Hindi: श्रमिक संघ (śramik saṅgh) Hungarian: szakszervezet (hu) Icelandic: stéttarfélag n Indonesian: serikat buruh (id) Irish: ceardchumann m Italian: sindacato (it) m Japanese: 労働組合 (ja) (ろうどうくみあい, rōdō kumiai), 労組 (ja) (ろうそ, ろうくみ, rōso / rōkumi) (abbreviation) Javanese: sarékat dagang Kazakh: кәсіподақ (käsıpodaq), кәсіпшілер одағы (käsıpşıler odağy) Korean: 노동조합(勞動組合) (ko) (nodongjohap), 로동조합(勞動組合) (rodongjohap) (North Korea), 노조(勞組) (nojo) (abbreviation, South Korea) Kyrgyz: профсоюз (profsoyuz) Lao: ກຳມະບານ (lo) (kam ma bān) Latvian: arodbiedrība f Lithuanian: profesinė sąjunga f, profsąjunga f Macedonian: синдика́т m (sindikát) Malayalam: തൊഴിലാളി സംഘടന (toḻilāḷi saṅghaṭana) Manx: sheshaght cheirdee f, keird-chummyn m, keird-heshaght f Mongolian: Cyrillic: үйлдвэрчний эвлэл (üjldverčnii evlel) Norwegian: Bokmål: fagforening (no) m or f Nynorsk: fagforeining f Persian: سندیکا‎ (fa) (sendikâ), اتحادیه صنفی‎ (ettehâdiye-ye senfi) Polish: związek zawodowy (pl) m inan Portuguese: sindicato (pt) m Romanian: sindicat comercial n, sindicat (ro) n Russian: профсою́з (ru) m (profsojúz), профессиона́льный сою́з m (professionálʹnyj sojúz), тред-юнио́н (ru) m (trɛd-junión) (rare, foreign context) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: синдѝка̄т m Roman: sindìkāt (sh) m Slovak: odbory m pl Slovene: sindikat (sl) m Spanish: sindicato (es) m Swedish: fackförening (sv) c, fack (sv) n (informal) Tagalog: unyon, unyong manggagawa, samahang manggagawa, kaisahan Tajik: иттифоқи касаба (ittifoqi kasaba) Thai: สหภาพแรงงาน (sà-hà-pâap-rɛɛng-ngaan) Turkish: sendika (tr) Turkmen: profsoýuz Ukrainian: профспі́лка f (profspílka), професі́йна спі́лка f (profesíjna spílka) Uyghur: ئىشچىلار ئۇيۇشمىسى‎ (ishchilar uyushmisi) Uzbek: profsoyuz, kasaba soyuzi Vietnamese: công đoàn (vi) Yiddish: פֿאַרבאַנד‎ m (farband), פֿאַראיין‎ m (fareyn), יוניאָן‎ f (yunyon) (American)

References

1. 2011, Simon Heffer, Simply English: An A-Z of Avoidable Errors, page 359

Anagrams

• enduration, unordinate, unrationed