What is another word for unionist?

Pronunciation: [jˈuːni͡ənˌɪst] (IPA)

A unionist is someone who supports a group or organization that advocates for the rights and interests of workers. Other words that could be used as synonyms for unionist include labor supporter, trade unionist, worker advocate, and organized labor supporter. These terms all share the same basic meaning, but may have slightly different connotations. Labor supporter, for instance, may suggest broader support for workers' rights and goals beyond just union membership, while organized labor supporter may emphasize a commitment to specific labor organizations rather than a more general labor movement. Nonetheless, all of these words essentially refer to people who advocate for the workers and their rights.

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Usage examples for Unionist

To this "unionist" party must be added the Orange party who stood for Protestant ascendancy.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry
On the mass of unionist Ireland, especially in Ulster, Sinn Fein had practically no influence.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry
The movement for the reform of the financial relations between England and Ireland which had followed the publication of the Report of the Financial Relations Committee in 1896 had been the last All-Ireland movement in which unionist Ulster had taken part.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry

Famous quotes with Unionist

  • I'm a passionate trade unionist.
    Richard Attenborough
  • The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.
    Ernest Bevin
  • Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.
    Martin Niemoller
  • In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up.
    Martin Niemller
  • In Hitler's Germany, when to be a Communist or Socialist or militant trade unionist or liberal och democrat meant arrest, the concentration camp, and often death and torture, when there was institued one of the most thoroughgoing "purges" of litterature and burning of books that the world has ever known, when Schiller's "Don Carlos", the poems of Heine and the novels of Thomas Mann were banned or burned as "subversive", the writings of Trotsky were widely translated and distributed.
    James Klugmann

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