The phrase "a top union" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a leading or highly regarded labor union or organization.
Example: "The negotiations were led by a top union, ensuring that the workers' rights were well represented."
Alternatives: "a leading union" or "a premier union".
Worker safety instantly became a top union priority, prompting a dramatic rise in membership nationwide.
Lawyers will meet again Monday to discuss the legal fight by baseball players against the elimination of teams, and a top union official called the owners' stance preposterous.
A top union negotiator said today that getting Chrysler's help in organizing American plants operated by its corporate cousin, Mercedes, would be an issue in the talks.
In a separate conversation with a top union official, Mr. Percoco was less direct, but suggested that the attorney general was interested in the Senate seat for himself.
"You always have a guess of where it might be, but it beat that expectation," said Burt Wagner, a top union official at a G.M. plant in Toledo, Ohio, that makes powertrains for Chevrolet Tahoes and Suburbans.
The Ford Motor Company's assembly plant near Atlanta is one of the most productive car factories on the continent, but a top union official there said today that its future was in doubt.
About 10 days ago, all top union officials were told to stop working for the union and to devote their time to their United Nations tasks.
A former top union official, Mark Shaplo, testified that Mr. Hill's subordinates had made sure he did not know about the vote-rigging, which ensured the ratification of the unpopular contract.
The ensuing scandal brought down a number of top union officials and uncovered evidence of lavish spending, including money spent on the penthouse suite that Mr. Diop rented on top of the union headquarters at 125 Barclay Street in Manhattan.
One example is a recent war of words between top union officials that led the former union treasurer to sue the executive director for libel.
In what labor leaders are calling a powerful signal that they intend to support State Comptroller H. Carl McCall for governor in 2002, nearly all of New York's top union officials will hold a fund-raiser for him Thursday in Manhattan.
