vertical union
A vertical union represents all employees in the automobile manufacturing industry.
Noun: A vertical union is a type of labor union that organizes all workers within a specific industry, regardless of their individual job, skill, or craft. Its primary goal is to unite all employees in that industrial sector under a single union to increase collective bargaining power.
The term is used to describe a union structure and its organizing principle. * The vertical union at the automobile plant represents everyone from assembly line workers to engineers. * Their strategy was to form a vertical union encompassing the entire steel industry.
- The concept is often contrasted with a craft union or horizontal union, which organizes workers based on a specific skill or trade across different industries.
- Vertical union is a key concept in discussions about labor history, industrial organization, and union strategies.
- Industrial Union: This is the more common and direct synonym for a vertical union.
- Craft Union: (Noun) A union organized according to craft or trade, representing the contrasting model to a vertical union.
- Industrial union
- Craft union
- Horizontal union
- Trade union (in the specific sense of a union for a particular skilled trade)
A vertical union represents all employees in the automobile manufacturing industry.
- a labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft