labor union

Questions about labor union

What does labor union mean?

labor union means "an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer".

What is another word for labor union?

Close synonyms include union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is labor union a common word?

labor union is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.