union card


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union card

n
(Industrial Relations & HR Terms) a membership card for a trade union
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un′ion card`


n.
a card identifying one as a member of a particular labor union.
[1870–75, Amer.]
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Noun1.union card - a card certifying membership in a labor union
membership card - a card certifying membership in an organization
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union card

ntessera del sindacato
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She had remembered his name from his union card. The next moment the superintendent had been plucked from the doorway raving about rights under the law, and the girls were deserting their machines.
Before another month was by, all the working members of his family had union cards, and wore their union buttons conspicuously and with pride.
For refusing to tear up their civil service union card, they paid the ultimate professional price: the sack, from the job they did for their country.
Almost 77% of employees who carry a union card are over 35, so we urgently need to address this demographic cliff-edge.
"You can tell employees that they have a right to sign a union card, but they can't be forced to do so," Romeo noted.
Service Employees International Union Local 73 attorneys contend in court documents that Mandel joined voluntarily and signed a union card when he was under no obligation to do so.
By giving their full name and student union card number, a student can book a taxi home with the fare paid by their Student Union, to be repaid when the emergency is over.
"The River" featured the title song -- a bleak tale of a worker, based on Springsteen's brother-in-law, who on his 19th birthday "got a union card and a wedding coat" -- as well as the pop hit "Hungry Heart."
A branch of UK Skunkworks, billed as Britain's biggest legal-high store chain, is giving the money off for shoppers who show their student union card.
The BBC would like to know; will Blackthorn vote on strike action today, or will you wait for a national ballot?' 'Listen, mate, no union card, not welcome,' Dai shoved reporter and crew out into the street.
"This unfair labour practice prevents roughly 70 per cent of qualified contractors from working on our bridges, water treatment facilities and public buildings--just because they don't hold the right union card or have chosen not to hold one at all."
Hopefully, this syndicate would enjoy professionalism and would gather under its wing all the Lebanese journalists in Lebanon, regardless of their political affiliations." "We are gathered here today to launch the union card for subscribers at the audiovisual syndicate, as questions are multiplying on the role of media in general and that of the audiovisual industry at this critical stage in Lebanon and the region," he said.

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