labor union

an organization of wage earners or salaried employees for mutual aid and protection and for dealing collectively with employers; trade union.

Origin of labor union

First recorded in 1865–70

He learned that these conditions had been somewhat improved through the formation of the garment-workers into a labor-union.

The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 |Various
All the "country" he had seen had been from car windows and the crumpled patches one encounters on labor-union picnics.

Comrade Yetta |Albert Edwards
From the beginning, the Union-Labor party had the support of elements outside the labor-union movement.

'The System,' as uncovered by the San Francisco Graft Prosecution |Franklin Hichborn
Now it cannot be expected that the labor-union or any other influence will greatly change the immigrant in this respect.

Races and Immigrants in America |John R. Commons

In spite of this report, Schmitz was reelected in 1905 as the candidate of the Labor-Union party.

The Boss and the Machine |Samuel P. Orth

labor union

An organization of workers formed to promote collective bargaining with employers over wages, hours, fringe benefits, job security, and working conditions.