Union

federal labor union

federal labor union : a union that is chartered by the AFL-CIO ...

labor union : a labor organization usually consisting of workers of the same trade that is formed for the purpose of advancing its members' interests (as through collective bargaining) in respect to wages, benefits, and working conditions see also craft union, bargaining unit NOTE: Labor unions and employers are subject to the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or Wagner Act), as amended by the Labor Management Relations (Taft-Hartley) Act and the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure (Landrum-Griffin) Act. The NLRA authorized the establishment of the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency which administers the provisions of the Act. ...

trade union

trade union : labor union ...

union 1 : an act or instance of uniting or joining two or more things into one ;esp : the formation of a single political unit from two or more separate and individual units 2 : something that is made one : something formed by a combining or coalition of its members: as a : a confederation of independent individuals (as nations or persons) for some common purpose b : a political unit constituting an organic whole formed usually from previously independent units (as England and Scotland in 1707) which have surrendered their principal powers to the government of the whole or to a newly created government (as the U.S. in 1789) c : labor union ...

Inter-Parliamentary Union

Inter-Parliamentary Union, is a world-wide organization of Parliamentarians United in common action to secure and maintain the full participation of their respective State in the firm establishment and development of representative institution and promotion of international peace and co-operation, particularly by importing the objectives of the United Nations, IPU pamphlet titled as inter-Parliamentary Union, 1889-1889, what it is what it does, Nov. 1988....

Registered Trade Union

Registered Trade Union, means a Trade Union registered under this Act. [Trade Unions Act, 1926 (16 of 1926), s. 2 (e)]...

South Africa, Union of

South Africa, Union of. The Colonies of Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Transvaal, and Orange Free State were incorporated into the Union of South Africa by the South Africa Act, 1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 9), and see DOMINION....

horizontal unionism

horizontal unionism : a form of labor organization in which unions are made up of workers with the same or similar skills or crafts or having the same status ...

Union of parishes for the purpose of administering the laws for the relief of the poor

Union of parishes for the purpose of administering the laws for the relief of the poor, first effected under 22 Geo. 3, c. 83 ('Gilbert's Act'), and after-wards under the (English) Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Poor.' (English) Poor Law Unions were abolished by the Poor Law Acts, 1930 and 1934 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 17 and 24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 59), and the powers of guardians transferred to the county and borough councils by the same Acts....

Service of the Union or of the State

Service of the Union or of the State, article 236(b) defined the expression 'judicial service' means a service consisting exclusively of persons intended to fill the post of district judge and other civil judicial posts inferior to the post of district judge. If this definition, instead of appearing in Art. 236, is placed as a clause before Art. 233(2), there cannot be any dispute that 'the service' in Art. 233(2) can only mean the judicial service, Chandra Mohan v. State of U.P., AIR 1966 SC 1987: (1967) 1 SCR 77....

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