union representative Meaning of "union representative"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a representative for a labor union

Usage(s):

  1. Walters was the union representative at the plant back then, and he says it offered good jobs and good benefits, but globalization and other corporate pressures caught up with them.
  2. A union representative warned that any attempt to impose compulsory staff cuts would trigger a strike ballot.
  3. Sigulla, 69, a former union representative in Maintal, a suburb of Frankfurt, owns his own four-story apartment building and earns more on his old-age pension than he did in salary.
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