The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trade-unionist
Trades-unionist \Trades"-un`ion*ist\, Trade-unionist \Trade"-un`ion*ist\, n. A member of a trades union, or a supporter of trades unions.
Usage examples of "trade-unionist".
Yet all these objectors felt the need of some sort of organization among the farmers, very much as the trade-unionist and the socialist, though widely divergent in program, agree that the workers must unite in order to better their condition.
And I don't want you to go thinking that we can expose and repudiate the revisionist and eclecticist historico-ideologues of the ruling classes just by arranging strikes and forming into unions, because the trade-unionist politics of the working class is nothing more than precisely a petit-bourgeois politics of the working class.