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Unionizing

To organize workers into a union.

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  1. 1

    To organize workers into a union.

    "My uncle got roughed up by some corporate thugs after they caught him trying to unionize their workers."

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organizeverb(transitive) To arrange in working order.
unionizationnoun(politics) The act of forming a labor union.
unioniseverbNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of unionize. [(ambitransitive) To organize workers into a union.]
unionisedAlternative spelling of unionized. [(participial adjective, of workers, workforces, companies, or industries) Organized into a trades union or trades unions.]
unionsnoun(countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
labor unionnoun(Canada, US) A continuous association of wage-earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment; a trade union.
unionnoun(countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
trade unionnounAn organization whose members belong to the same trade and that acts collectively to address common issues.
trades unionnounDated form of trade union. [An organization whose members belong to the same trade and that acts collectively to address common issues.]
unionismnounThe support of advocacy of a union, especially of a trade union.
craft unionnouna labor union whose membership is restricted to workers in a particular craft
trade unionistnounA member of a trade union.
industrial unionnouna labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft
collective bargainingnounA method of negotiation in which employees negotiate as a group with their employers, usually via a trade union.
union buster
unionistsnounAn advocate or supporter of unionism (in any sense).
collective agreementnounA contract specifying terms and conditions of employment between one or more labor unions and employers' organizations legally binding for employers organized in these and the employees if they are unionized in them or their employment contract incorporates them by referral.
industrial actionnoun(chiefly UK, Ireland, labour) A workplace protest by employees designed to inconvenience or disrupt the business of the employer.
collectivizeverb(ambitransitive) To organize (a farm or industrial enterprise) on the basis of collective control.
syndicalismnoun(socialism) Control of both industry and government by labor unions, especially as achieved through revolutionary direct action; advocacy for attempts to bring it about.

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