Confederatia Sindicala Nationala Meridian, Bucureşti

Comparing Explanatory Dictionaries edited in different periods, we can observe that the terms trade-unionism and trade-union did not suffer important modification.

The Revolution in December 1989 brought about, evidently, basic modifications in the attitude towards trade-unionism and its forms of manifestation. As a matter of fact, from the condition of intermediate between the political class and the working class was made the transition to adopting the free, independent character of the organization and development of the trade-unionism, in the context of democratization of the Romanian society.

While we totally assimilate the definition and the character essentially established by the law of the trade-unions as organizations which are volitionally constituted with the purpose of defense and the promotion of the economical, cultural, professional interests of the employees, we consider indispensable the specification in the following lines of some attitudes, opinions regarding the identification of the trade-union and the its leaders.