[ noun ] the system or principles and theory of labor unions <noun.group>
Unionism \Un"ion*ism\, n. 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.
The vote was for the future of trade unionism, but the sound and fury of the debate put the ugly face of trade unionism before the public.
The vote was for the future of trade unionism, but the sound and fury of the debate put the ugly face of trade unionism before the public.
The citizenry as a whole must decide whether free and independent unionism, currently declining precipitously in the private sector, is an institution worth having in a free society.
Weary strikers in the shipyard where the short life of free unionism began roused themselves to chant "There is no freedom without Solidarity!"
I am sure many British workers would be glad to show they could compete unshackled by the chains of British unionism.
It is time to confront the hard fact that historically the long and bitter battle over unionism has primarily been a battle of workers who want to unionize against workers who do not want to unionize.
That isn't the kind of unionism we've had in recent decades, but it may not be too late to give it a try.
Communism, borne into East Europe on the bayonets of the Red Army in World War II, already must compete with other creeds, like Solidarity-style trade unionism and Roman Catholicism in Poland.
In recent years they have become a major obstacle to the development of unionism in the U.S.
Though not always as dramatic, similar scenes have been playing out for two months across South Korea, which long has had one of the lowest levels of unionism of any industrial country, as an independent labor movement is born.
Pockets of unionism will exist in a few older industries and the public sector, but few other places.