Unionist may refer to:
*A member or supporter of a
trade union
A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...
Europe
United Kingdom
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Unionism in the United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, unionism is a political stance favouring the continued unity of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as one sovereign state, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Those who support the union ...
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Unionism in Ireland
Unionism in Ireland is a political tradition that professes loyalty to the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, crown of the United Kingdom and to the union it represents with England, Scotland and Wales. The overwhelming sentiment of Ireland's Pro ...
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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 ...
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Scottish Conservative & Unionist Association
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Conservative Party, known simply as Conservatives
Other places in Europe
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Unification of Moldova and Romania
The unification of Moldova and Romania is the idea that Moldova and Romania should become a single sovereign state and the political movement which seeks to bring it about. Beginning during the Revolutions of 1989 (including the Romanian Revolut ...
, Romanian-Moldovan Unionists
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Spanish unionism
Spanish unionism is a term used mainly by the Basque nationalism and Catalan independence movements to refer to the political attitude which opposes independence and favours the continuity of the Kingdom of Spain as a single united nation-state ...
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Committee of Union and Progress
The Ottoman Committee of Union and Progress (CUP, also translated as the Society of Union and Progress; , French language, French: ''Union et Progrès'') was a revolutionary group, secret society, and political party, active between 1889 and 1926 ...
, 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)
The National Unionist Party was a political party based in the Punjab Province during the period of British rule in India. The Unionist Party mainly represented the interests of the landed gentry and landlords of Punjab, which included Muslims ...
, India
North America
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Southern Unionist
In the United States, Southern Unionists were white Southerners living in the Confederate States of America and the Southern Border States opposed to secession. Many fought for the Union during the Civil War. These people are also referred t ...
, a resident of the slave states opposed to secession prior to or during the American Civil War
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Unionist politician (American Civil War)
Unionists in the border states organized political parties to oppose secession from the United States during the American Civil War. They extended critical support to the wartime administration of Abraham Lincoln while remaining outside Lincoln' ...
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Unionist Party (Canada)
The Unionist Party was a centre to centre-right political party in Canada, composed primarily of former members of the Conservative party with some individual Liberal members of Parliament. It was formed in 1917 by MPs who supported the " Union ...
, a merger of parties that led Canada during World War I
See also
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Unionist Party (disambiguation) Unionist Party may refer to:
United Kingdom
* Conservative and Unionist Party, the formal name of the Conservative Party
* Liberal Unionist Party, existed from 1886 to 1912
** Unionist government, 1895–1905, a coalition government of the two part ...
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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)
Union commonly refers to:
* Trade union, an organization of workers
* Union (set theory), in mathematics, a fundamental operation on sets
Union may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Music
* Union (band), an American rock group
** Union (U ...
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