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n. - A worker who belongs to a labor organization created for the purpose of advancing (as by collective bargaining) its members' interests (as in respect to wages and working conditions)

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  • In Scotland & Wales the big three represent the Union, while the Nats have their own parties, talk of throwing off the name unionist is very premature.
  • "In Scotland & Wales the big three represent the Union, while the Nats have their own parties, talk of throwing off the name unionist is very premature."
  • Among Greeks the word "unionist" is rendered as "enotist" — someone who supports enosis, or union, between Greece and John Bull's other European colony, Cyprus.
  • I can recall unionist leaders, in the Sixties saying loyalist groups had no standing or support within the Protestant community.
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