VERTICAL UNION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft

Synonyms:

industrial union; vertical union

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("vertical union" is a kind of...):

brotherhood; labor union; trade union; trades union; union (an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vertical union"):

Teamsters Union (an industrial union of truck drivers and chauffeurs and warehouse workers)

United Mine Workers; United Mine Workers of America (an industrial union of mine workers in North America)