UNION

a group of workers in the same trade or occupation joined together under accepted leadership to protect and further their interests through collective action. Unions act primarily to obtain increased or uniform wages and improved working conditions and benefits; a trade union or labor union.

of or having to do with the American colonies who were united into one political body at the time of the American Revolution. See also 1776 in this glossary. —PDC Volume 6 Approved Glossary