shop steward
nounDefinition of shop steward
: a union member elected as the union representative of a shop or department in dealings with the management
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Political discussions regularly pop up on the floor, but last week felt different to Maricarmen Molina, a 26-year-old shop steward. — Julie Jargon, WSJ, "The Kavanaugh Effect: Political Debates Shake Up the Workplace," 7 Oct. 2018 Companies such as Flexjet have a constitutional right to express anti-union views, said University of Wyoming law professor Michael Duff, a former Teamsters shop steward. — Josh Eidelson, latimes.com, "Airline pilots may be next in the U.S. corporate war on unions," 1 May 2018 In the last few years, the commission investigated and helped to prosecute several union officials, shop stewards and foremen for a conspiracy to extort their own union members on behalf of the Genovese organized crime family, the complaint stated. — Patrick Mcgeehan, New York Times, "On the Waterfront, a Mob Watchdog Is Fighting to Survive," 17 Jan. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'shop steward.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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