NOUN
- a union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management
How To Use shop steward In A Sentence
- Stan Walley, our shop steward, reckoned it was a Trojan horse got up by management, looking for ways to lay people off. MR STARLIGHT
- She was an active trade unionist and had been elected a shop steward.
- She was an active trade unionist and had been elected a shop steward.
- We are trying to bring the union shop stewards from both workplaces together and launch a campaign to save jobs.
- She was an active trade unionist and had been elected a shop steward.
- In bigger unionised plants there may be a shop steward superstructure, headed by a convenor who might spend most or all of his time on union business.
- As a shop steward, he developed a reputation for militancy, although he denies affiliation with the ultra-Left, and objects to being caricatured as one of those swivel-eyed Trots of myth.
- (Soundbite of laughter) SAGAL: And only the shop steward can bogart it. Panel Round Two
- Although shop stewards held a meeting yesterday, union organisers had not been informed officially of the authority's move.
- Yesterday, the joint shop stewards committee of Corporate Jets said a loss of production would be a mortal blow.
