Definition of "trade union movement" []

• An organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Everyone in AMWU fervently hopes that by then the other buildings will have been sold, the union’s finances will be restored to health, and the election of a Labour government will have given the whole trade union movement a new lease on life."
• "One hundred and eighty-one years ago, in the fall of 1827, a group of mechanics met in the shadow of Independence Hall to form what they called the Mechanics Union of Trade Associations - a moment that marked the birth of the trade union movement in America."
• "The Communists were discredited for their part in the Delgado regime, but those who had gone underground with the rest of the trade union movement managed to hold an edge of strength outside the KWC’s ranks."