Union of Commercial and Industrial Workers
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The Union of Commercial and Industrial Workers is a trade union
in Trinidad and Tobago
which was once one of the major unions organising shop workers. It has since diminished in both size and significance.
Trade union
A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...
in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
which was once one of the major unions organising shop workers. It has since diminished in both size and significance.