Unionist may refer to:
*A member or supporter of a
trade union
A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ...
Europe
United Kingdom
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Unionism in the United Kingdom
Unionism in the United Kingdom, also referred to as British unionism, is a political ideology favouring the continued unity of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as one sovereign state, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North ...
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Unionism in Ireland
Unionism is a political tradition on the island of Ireland that favours political union with Great Britain and professes loyalty to the United Kingdom, British Monarchy of the United Kingdom, Crown and Constitution of the United Kingdom, cons ...
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Unionism in Scotland
Unionism in Scotland () is a political movement which favours the continuation of the political union between Scotland and the other countries of the United Kingdom (England, Wales and Northern Ireland), and hence is opposed to Scottish indepe ...
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Unionist Party (Scotland)
The Unionist Party was the main centre-right political party in Scotland between 1912 and 1965.
Independent of, although associated with, the Conservative Party in England and Wales, it stood for election at different periods of its history i ...
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Scottish Conservative & Unionist Association
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Conservative Party
The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right.
Political parties called The Conservative P ...
, known simply as Conservatives
Other places in Europe
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Movement for the unification of Romania and Moldova, Romanian-Moldovan Unionists
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Spanish unionism
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Committee of Union and Progress, commonly CUP or Unionists, Turkey (Ottoman Empire)
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Unionism in Belgium
In the politics of Belgium, Unionism or Union of Opposites (''union des oppositions'') is a Belgian political movement that existed from the 1820s to 1846. (In the present day, the term 'unionists' is sometimes used in a Belgian context to describ ...
Asia
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Unionist Party (Punjab), India
North America
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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
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Southern Unionist, a White Southerner who either opposed secession and the Confederate States of America and/or supported the Union or stayed neutral
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National Union Party (United States)
The National Union Party was the temporary name used by the Republican Party and elements of other parties for the national ticket in the 1864 presidential election that was held during the Civil War. For the most part, state Republican partie ...
, a political party that ran briefly in the 1864 presidential election
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Unionist Party (Canada), a merger of parties that led Canada during World War I
See also
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Unionist Party (disambiguation)
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Unionism (disambiguation)
Unionism may refer to:
Trades
*Community unionism, the ways trade unions work with community organizations
*Craft unionism, a model of trade unionism in which workers are organised based on a particular craft or trade
* Dual unionism, the develop ...
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Union (disambiguation)
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