Trades Hall

A Trades Hall is an English term for a building where trade unions meet together, or work from cooperatively, as a local representative organisation, known as a Labor Council or Trades Hall Council. The term is commonly used in England, Scotland and Australia.

They are sometimes colloquially called ''the worker's parliament''.

Famous quotes containing the words trades and/or hall:

    “Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill
    of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.”
    —Donald Hall (b. 1928)