unionist in English

noun
1
a member of a labor union.
Firstly, as a unionist and a member of a progressive union, I fully support redeployment, but you need to consider the time factor when you deal with it.
2
a person who opposed secession during the Civil War.
With secession, Philadelphia's unionists believed that the very foundation of their prosperity as a class had been placed in jeopardy.
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1. 8 Paisley had Craig expelled from the unionist coalition.

2. The dead man was identified by Greek media as a middle-aged trade unionist .

3. Cyrille Adoula (13 September 1921 – 24 May 1978) was a Congolese trade unionist and politician

4. Brian Faulkner thereupon resigned as leader of the Unionist party and this was followed by further resignations.

5. 16 Distinctly disappointing has been the negative posturing of the Unionist political establishment led by Trimble and Paisley.

6. The presentation of that election as a popular referendum prevented a new populist attack on the Unionist government.

7. 16 A few days later the Ulster Unionist Council rejected the Sunningdale proposals by 427 votes to 3

8. Unless the growing spirit of the movement could be harnessed coherently, mob rule would replace Unionist minority rule.

9. "The general business unionist response to the proliferation of grievances was to increase the specificity of the contract's language.

10. 29 Distinctly disappointing has been the negative posturing of the Unionist political establishment led by Trimble and Paisley.

11. 14 Paisley asserted that, had he wanted to destroy the Unionist Party, he would have fielded candidates in all the constituencies.

12. William Crooks (6 April 1852 – 5 June 1921) was a noted trade unionist and politician from Poplar, London, and a member of the Fabian Society

13. 27 Unionists responded by either boycotting council meetings or trying to exclude SinnFein councillors,(www.Sentencedict.com) depending on whether or not there was a unionist majority.

14. Thokozani Khuphe (born 18 November 1963) is a Zimbabwean politician, trade unionist and the President of the MDC-T breakaway faction of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

15. The paddle steamer Lelia was a purpose-built war ship Clandestinely ordered and built in Liverpool for the Confederate Government in the southern states of the US, fighting the Unionist forces in the north

16. The term “Backwoodsmen” originated in the rhetoric of an embattled Liberal Government intent on discrediting an overwhelmingly Unionist House of Lords during the struggle over the “People's Budget” of 1909