What you describe is a guild, which tended to monopolise the trade of particular craftsman in a city as a form of job guarantee by controlling the competition.
Trade, worker or labour unions were founded to protect the worker's from exploitation.
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Actually It was not a Guild it was a Union, one of the oldest types in fact it was A Construction Labor Union local 767 in south Florida. I was an apprentise, and learned how to be a laborer for a few different trades like Carpentry, Plumber, and Sheet Rock installers on High Rise buildings. I paid dues, went to the union hall for work, ect. We called non union people scabs. We only worked on Union Jobs. I got paid well, a lot more then scabs who did the same types of work on non union jobs. I received training in various construction work from the bottom up. If I had stayed with it I could have gotten into one of the Main Unions.
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OL - Dangerous Operations Group {DOG}
"There is NO "I" in Teamwork"
DOG SLOGAN - "It's not the size of the DOG in a fight, it's the size of the fight in the DOG"
DOG BATTLE CRY - " Cry 'Havoc,' and Let Slip The DOG's OF War. "
And Hamma I see the VS
and the NC
have infiltrated your board. So the TR
will have to kill them all and make them the yellow bastards they are