union delegate

collocation in English

meaningsofunionanddelegate

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union
noun
uk
/ˈjuː.njən/us
/ˈjuː.njən/
the act or the state of being ...
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delegate
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdel.ɪ.ɡət/us
/ˈdel.ə.ɡət/
a person chosen or elected by a group to speak, vote, etc. for them, especially at ...
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(Definition ofunionanddelegatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofunion delegate

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Why not leave it all up to theuniondelegateconferences and union executives to decide those issues on behalf of union members?
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It is about a tradeuniondelegate, a very efficient worker, who was offered promotion to become the foreman of a gas producer plant.
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In other cases, an associate might be a corrupt laboruniondelegateor businessman.
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He had a career as a grazier and on the railways before entering politics, working variously as engine driver, fireman, engine cleaner anduniondelegate.
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From an early age she took an active role in trade unions, serving as auniondelegatefrom 1970 to 1989.
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Elected tradeuniondelegatefor the first time in 1947, he retained this function until 1953.
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The trade union delegates place their problems and difficulties before the managements, and the managements put their difficulties also to the delegates.
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I want to be fair to the trade union delegates and the higher trade union officials.
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They were not trade union delegates, but ordinary miners.
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If there are three trade union delegates and three employers' representatives on a working party, the result is going to be deadly.
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Union delegates elect committees for 9 districts, 66 regions and the federal centre.
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A resolution against trade unionism was actually proposed, and labor union delegates had to work hard to secure adjournment in order to avoid passage of the motion.
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