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What To Know Musk has vowed to cut $2 trillion a year from the federal budget, leading to a series of lawsuits by federal employee trade unions and Democratic states, which say that DOGE has no legal right to review federal databases.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
Zoom in: O'Connor received support from about a dozen local trade unions representing thousands of workers across the Pittsburgh region.
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Ryan Deto, Axios, 10 Feb. 2025
Radical historians found parallels to Thompson’s narrative in the growth of the American labor movement in the 1830s, starting with the emergence of trade unions, newspapers, and cooperatives.
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 Feb. 2025
The United Musicians and Allied Workers, a music-industry trade union, was formed in 2020 in part to lobby on behalf of those most affected by the large-scale changes of the past decade.
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Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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1828, in the meaning defined above
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“Trade union.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trade%20union. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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