| Trade Union (n.) An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc. Thesaurus Entries bargaining, chaffer, chaffering, coming to terms, company union, craft union, dickering, haggle, haggling, higgling, horizontal union, industrial union, labor union, local, local union, negotiation, organized labor, package bargaining, pattern bargaining, trade guild, trade union, union local, vertical union |