vertical union

1. 1.

   a labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft

   Synonymsindustrial union

   Broaderunion

   NarrowerTeamsters UnionUnited Mine Workers of America

Questions about vertical union

What does vertical union mean?

vertical union means "a labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft".

What is another word for vertical union?

Close synonyms include industrial union. 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 vertical union a common word?

vertical 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.