Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun industrial_union

1 sense of industrial union

Sense 1
industrial union, vertical union -- (a labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft)
       => union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood -- (an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job")