noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a union/business leader
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Business leaders welcomed a cut in the interest rate.
African Union, the
European Union
gym/union/party etc membership (= membership of a particular group )
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How much do you pay for your gym membership?
labor union
Rugby Union
staff/union/company etc rep
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You need to speak to the students’ rep.
student union
trade union
Union Jack
union suit
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
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As a result, they are determined to build on that interdependence by moving towards economic and monetary union .
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It came at a moment when skepticism over the pace toward full economic union and the single currency has been mounting.
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Provisions concerning economic union Article 11.
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At Maastricht next month, political, economic and monetary union will take pride of place.
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My right hon. Friend the Chancellor and his counterparts ably negotiated amendments in the documents on economic and monetary union .
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Already, there are plans for another intergovernmental conference in 1996 and they already have a timetable for economic and monetary union .
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The treaty covers economic and monetary union and political union.
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In his speech, the Prime Minister set out the weak position from which he negotiates on economic and monetary union .
local
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It was easier for them to demand money from the Government than argue plans past their local unions .
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It was one of five local unions in the Northwest Indiana District Council.
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During the case studies a large number of interviews with local credit union members will be carried out.
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To me, there is nothing harder than to run a local union .
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In any industrial plant, there is a local union headed by a general delegate.
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The local flight attendant union , I told her.
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Gavin, since been dismissed by local government union Nalgo, was a full-time union official representing thousands of council employees.
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Active steps were also taken to strengthen links with local trade unions .
monetary
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The reason is that the treaty sets criteria to measure whether a country is ready for economic and monetary union .
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The upper limit for prospective members of the future monetary union is 3 percent.
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He provides the intellectual thrust and gravitas of the arguments of those who oppose monetary and political union .
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First, a definition of monetary union will be presented.
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These problems would intensify following the introduction of a core monetary union .
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Maastricht makes exchange-rate stability a precondition for participating in monetary union .
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I believe that monetary union is political union, and that the creation of a single currency is federalism.
political
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Of course, as the Oxford philosophers always say, it all depends upon what we mean by political union .
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It is simply a free trade area with not even vague plans for eventual political union .
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De Gaulle had already had arguments with the other five over his 1961 blueprint for political union .
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He provides the intellectual thrust and gravitas of the arguments of those who oppose monetary and political union .
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Doesn't monetary union inevitably lead to political union?
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More recently there has been a steep decline in the support for political union .
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That is true on economic and monetary union and on political union.
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The first clash came over de Gaulle's ideas on political union .
■ NOUN
credit
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Underneath them stand thousands of weaker regional banks, mutual banks and credit unions , as well as non-bank banks such as leasing firms.
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Traditionally, credit unions have drawn their members from a single employer or community.
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The Credit Unions Act 1979 has eased the growth of the credit union movement.
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The credit unions are backing a House bill co-sponsored by Rep.
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In essence, then, credit unions are owned and controlled by their members through elected officials.
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That allows some credit unions to offer interest rates at least 2 percent lower on loans than commercial banks.
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Credit talk: Fancy setting up a credit union or finding out a bit more about how one works?
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Of course, most credit unions have small memberships and assets of only a few million dollars.
currency
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The creation of a currency union removes this disadvantage.
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In a parallel currency union , a member country's currency competes with the parallel currency.
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Similarly, a parallel currency union shares certain features with a currency union.
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In a currency union these transactions costs are eliminated.
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His economics minister is talking of currency union between the two Germanies by July.
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Further, in a currency union no government of a member country can manipulate the money supply growth rate for electoral purposes.
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Its central provision was the currency union of I July 1990, but it contained a number of other important provisions.
labor
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Economic prosperity allowed government to maintain peace with the labor unions by allowing high wage settlements.
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Add to this the fact that in every developed country today, the strongest labor unions are government employees.
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Some groups, such as the farmers and the labor unions , now gained a greater share in power and its benefits.
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One clear beneficiary is labor unions , which tend to represent high-wage workers.
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To win her support, the ports would have to open discussions with labor unions that oppose the bill.
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No one would trust a documentary series about labor unions paid for entirely by union funds.
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The flight attendants meeting in Sydney this morning have authorized their labor union to take further action.
leader
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This optimism, however, is not shared by many politicians and trade union leaders .
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There are trade union leaders who see nothing wrong in this situation.
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It earned an angry response from a teachers' union leader , Nigel de Gruchy.
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But health union leaders remain sceptical, and fear services could be hit if the mall fails to take off.
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Granada managers held talks with union leaders about the job losses in London yesterday.
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And where once union leaders talked of struggle and solidarity, now they speak of profitability and competitiveness.
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Could the government ban union membership amongst civil servants working at its intelligence headquarters without consulting union leaders ?
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And it provoked a furious backlash from Labour and union leaders .
member
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They made an inventory of the industries in the zone and then made contact with union members in them.
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Among trade union members 70 percent were in favour, while 75 percent of Green Party members opposed abolition.
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We have also legislated five times to transform industrial relations, returning power from militants to ordinary union members .
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Her role is simply to assist union members in taking certain specified types of legal action against their trade union.
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In 1955 R left the union after a disagreement with union members .
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Which trade union members should engage in such wider learning?
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In Britain, closed shop arrangements currently extend to just 20% of all employees, under half of all union members .
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But he's not allowed into the Labour Party because he's not a union member .
membership
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He went on to say he would introduce a scheme for voluntary union membership as soon as possible.
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He explained that union membership was an outdated rule.
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In contrast, decentralised bargaining systems have a restricting influence upon the degree of union membership attained.
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The victimization which occurred, the loss of trade union membership , and the wage reductions all seemed to confirm this impression.
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By 1920, trade union membership reached its inter-war peak of about 8 million.
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The rights of union membership would also be guaranteed.
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We are therefore concerned with the impact which trade unions and trade union membership has upon the productivity of the workforce.
movement
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Would a renewed Labour Party imply a revived trade union movement ?
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Right now the trade union movement in Britain is functioning as a white man's union and this must be challenged.
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It is the main task of the trade union movement to create this unity.
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The call followed growing public unrest with several confrontations between the trade union movement and the government.
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By the late 1930s the trade union movement was, in fact, recapturing its lost membership.
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It was becoming an alliance of the trade union movement with a unitary political party.
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The trade union movement as a whole would, in the future, face similar challenges to its powers in other industries.
official
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Oleg Stolypin, a state lawyer Karim Ishkent, a trade union official .
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Labor and trade union officials were arrested by the score.
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But the ban has upset some workers, and union officials say it's unnecessary.
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According to Les Echos, union officials said that Pache would give no indication of the size or timing of staff losses.
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The Left became increasingly middle-class and this reinforced the already strong opposition to it among trade union officials .
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Teachers' union officials admit that many teachers earn more from private tutoring than from their official jobs.
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However, these are often frustrated at branch level or by union officials in individual firms.
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Workers were given the grim news by union officials at a mass meeting.
representative
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Trade union representatives meet with management regularly at national and regional level at meetings known as Whitley Councils.
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Under the initiative, labor unions representatives would face city management in meetings open to the public.
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Next week union representatives and shop-floor workers will travel to London to lobby Parliament.
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The research also examines the perception and evaluation of health and safety problems and goals by trade union representatives .
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Guidelines have been agreed by management and union representatives and have been put to federal ministers.
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It is therefore necessary to include the personnel manager and a trade union representative in the systems planning team.
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The employers' offensive worsened job conditions and hamstrung plant-level union representatives .
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Mr Clifton paid particular tribute to the work of the trades union representatives on the advisory committee.
rugby
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Is there not one prominent rugby union footballer or journalist who is compelled to criticize this scandalous and absurd state of affairs?
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Nigel Henderson is a consultant who's involved in the management of rugby union and deals with worst of these cases.
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The Green Lane site is also home to Middlesbrough's cricket and rugby union clubs.
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Yet the events at Murrayfield illustrated just what a complex sport rugby union actually is.
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Davies speaks volumes Robert Armstrong on the biography destined to be a rugby union classic.
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The 1991 World Cup generated unprecedented interest in rugby union and planted the sport firmly in the top league of spectator sports.
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Categories will include golf, tennis, rugby union , football, horseracing, cricket, Formula 1 and rugby league.
student
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A student union called for a one-day strike at local colleges.
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One stands proudly in the main lobby of the student union at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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The annual fee includes the subscription for student unions , athletic clubs, and other facilities.
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Finally, it's worth noting that most colleges have an extensive range of services offered by the college or student union .
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Outside London, you can find yourself performing in student unions , arts centres, pubs, theatre foyers or art galleries.
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Teviot Row House is the oldest purpose-built student union in Britain, dating back to 1889.
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Detectives said the crime was pre-meditated. p-t-c Reaction to the sentence from the student union was mixed.
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The student union are taking legal advice about whether they can take any further action to recover the missing money.
trade
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On Jan. 14 Olszewski had agreed to look into budget proposals from the Solidarity trade union which would cause less hardship.
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By 1920, trade union membership reached its inter-war peak of about 8 million.
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Unemployment, therefore, exerted a powerful, but short-lived, impact upon trade unions and the pattern of industrial relations.
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A number of new trade unions were formed in the latter part of 1989 to represent a wide range of workers.
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Others felt that the trade unions can do very little and that people don't look to them.
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The electoral college elects B, mainly through trade union and constituency votes.
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Elsewhere, the trade unions appear to have been weakly organised in the District.
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The vendor will be required to warrant that no trade unions have been recognised and that there are no collective agreements.
■ VERB
form
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The right to form trade unions and professional bodies, and the right to strike were established.
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I doubt today if any group of workers can form a union if their employer is truly determined to resist.
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Among the most controversial options being considered is whether to form a union with the Roman Catholic Church.
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We tried to form a union .
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They also demanded the right to form a union and insisted on the reinstatement of policemen sacked earlier for indiscipline.
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And women in many developed countries are tending increasingly to adjust by forming non-legal unions that often produce offspring.
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Several members of the prison staff said they expected to be victimised for helping to form the union .
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They had agreed that it would be unrealistic to attempt to form a union of the two republics.
join
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The idea was to encourage people to join a union - not ban them if they couldn't.
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In a historic shift, many are even joining unions .
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The first concerns an employee's freedom to join the union of his choice.
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Can a teacher be forced to join a union ?
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They must join the existing unions and fight through them.
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I went down to the union and they told me I got to be working before I could join the union.
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Were they allowed to join a union ?
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Do all teachers have a right to join a union and engage in collective bargaining?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crime-busting/union-busting/budget-busting etc
the European Union
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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union members
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Alaska and Hawaii both joined the union in 1959.
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Some workers refused to join the union .
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The largest teachers' union supports the education reforms.
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the National Union of Mineworkers.
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the National Farmers' Union
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The President could not rely on the support of the labor unions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Among the most controversial options being considered is whether to form a union with the Roman Catholic Church.
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She tried to get into the matter of trade unions.
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Strategically, it was a victory for the union forces of the North.
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The Labour party and trade unions say farmworkers need to be protected and need to be treated as a special case.
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They certainly lose a degree of security, and for that reason their unions often oppose any threat to their monopoly status.
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Yucatan, although not completely pacified, had been reincorporated into the federal union in July.