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A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, [1] such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of ...
Union, a labor documentary released in 2024; Union, a Dark Horse comics limited series; Union, in the fictional Alliance–Union universe of C. J. Cherryh; Union (Horse with Two Discs), a bronze sculpture by Christopher Le Brun, 1999–2000
In the context of the Civil War, "Union" is also often used as a synonym for "the northern states loyal to the United States government". [1] In this meaning, the Union included 20 free states (in the north and west) and four southern border slave states , Delaware , Maryland , Kentucky , and Missouri , though Missouri and Kentucky both had ...
A political union is a type of political entity which is composed of, or created from, smaller polities, or the process which achieves this. These smaller polities are usually called federated states and federal territories in a federal government ; and prefectures , regions , or provinces in the case of a centralised government .
Full name: International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Automobile, truck, farm equipment, and construction equipment manufacturing workers. 2010
Pinkerton agents escort strikebreakers in Buchtel, Ohio, 1884 Industrial Workers of the World stickerette "Don't Scab". A strikebreaker (sometimes pejoratively called a scab, blackleg, bootlicker, blackguard or knobstick) is a person who works despite an ongoing strike.
The British Union of Fascists used the word commonly to refer to members. Their marching song, set to the music of the Horst-Wessel-Lied began 'Comrades, the voices'. The writer, E.D. Randall, defended the usage of the word by stating that 'comrades' ‘fittingly and completely expresses the ideal of unity in the service of a common cause’ [ 26 ]
Henosis (Ancient Greek: ἕνωσις) is the classical Greek word for mystical "oneness", "union" or "unity".In Neoplatonism, henosis is unification with what is fundamental in reality: the One (Τὸ Ἕν), the Source, or Monad. [1]