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A trades hall is a building where trade unions meet together, or work from cooperatively, as a local representative organisation, known as a labour council or trades hall council.[1] The term is commonly used in England, New Zealand, Scotland and Australia. They are sometimes called a union hall, or labour temple in North America (see, for instance, Finnish Labour Temple, Labor Temple Building, Union Hall (Danforth, Maine), etc.)
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They are sometimes colloquially called "the worker's parliament".
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edit- ^ "The Victorian Trades Hall". Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Retrieved 7 January 2024.