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labor union

Also known as labour union, work union, workers union, union, worker's union, trade union, trades union, employees' union

organization of workers with common goals

AI overview

A labor union is an organization where workers with common goals band together to advocate for their shared interests. Unions matter because they give individual workers a collective voice to negotiate better conditions and address workplace concerns.

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Research

10,792 papers

Union Burying Ground: Mortality, Mortality Inequities, and Sinking Labor Union Membership in the United States.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2021Eisenberg-Guyot J, Mooney SJ, Barrington WE et al.DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001386
Labor relations: union activity increases among professionals.ReviewHospitals · 1979Bentivegna G
Radiology Resident Perspectives on and Experiences With Labor Union Participation.Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR · 2025Kinne E, Maxfield C, Varney E et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2025.04.005
Association between labor union presence and return to work after occupational injury or illness: A nationally representative longitudinal study in South Korea.American journal of industrial medicine · 2021Choi B, Bahk J, Lee H et al.DOI: 10.1002/ajim.23296
Compensation Appraisals and Labor Union Membership.New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS · 2018Reynolds MMDOI: 10.1177/1048291118793631
Solidarity and disparity: Declining labor union density and changing racial and educational mortality inequities in the United States.American journal of industrial medicine · 2020Eisenberg-Guyot J, Mooney SJ, Hagopian A et al.DOI: 10.1002/ajim.23081
A Union Summit organised by the Labor Council of NSW.The Lamp · 1996Moait S
Doctors union.The Ohio State medical journal · 1985Sutton RG

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International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations: 11 300
short name: 労組
Commons category: Trade unionism
Commons gallery: Trade unions
equivalent class: schema.org/WorkersUnion
Mastodon instance URL: union.place
P8168: Hengshan
OpenStreetMap tag: office=union

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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, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions and safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing the status of employees (including rules on promotions and just-cause conditions for termination), and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

Trade unions typically fund their head office and legal team functions through regularly imposed fees called union dues. The union representatives in the workforce are usually made up of workplace volunteers who are often appointed by members through internal democratic elections. The trade union, through an elected leadership and bargaining committee, bargains with the employer on behalf of its members, known as the rank and file, and negotiates labour contracts (collective bargaining agreements) with employers.