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Definition of trade union: An organization whose membership consists of workers and union leaders, united to protect and promote their common interests.

a worker who belongs to a trade union

  Familiarity information: UNIONIST used as a noun is very rare

Europe

United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, British unionists are those people and political organisations who wish their area to remain or become part of the United Kingdom. More specifically, it may refer to:
Unionism in Ireland
Unionism in Scotland
Unionist Party (Scotland)
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly simply as Conservatives
[edit]Romania and Moldova
Romanian-Moldovan Unionists
North America

Unionist (United States), a member or supporter of the twenty-three Northern states that were not part of the seceding Confederacy during the American Civil War
National Union Party (United States)
Unionist Party (Canada), a merger of parties that led Canada during World War I
See also

Unionist Party (disambiguation)
Unionism (disambiguation)
Union (disambiguation)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unionist

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