One Big Union

Esp. West

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a labor organization formed at Calgary in 1919 on an industrial rather than a craft basis; also, a member of this organization. Abbrev. O.B.U.

See: O.B.U.

Quotations

<i>c</i>1921

You may say: "Well, if I join the One Big Union, I can't get a job. I can't hold my job, for the boss don't want O.B.U.'s"

1963

In the western provinces a radical industrial union took shape, the Canadian One Big Union, or O.B.U.