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Definition of Unionism

Unionism

  1. The sentiment of attachment to a federal union, especially to the federal union of the United States.
  2. The principles, or the system, of combination among workmen engaged in the same occupation or trade.
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
George Bernard Shaw

Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.
Gerry Adams

In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.
Frances O'Grady

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.
Charles Kennedy

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.
Richard Attenborough

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