Research Trade Associations

[eyncydious]

Talk about being way off topic...

Since I know most of you are far more intelligent than I am, I thought I might post a really strange, obscure, and 100% off, off-topic question. A friend of mine had a question today about something called research trade unions - something for a business class. I clearly had no idea what it was, but I figured I'd give it a go at researching it. Now I can find days worth of information about trade associations, but not research trade associations specifically. Would any of you overly-intelligent folks happen to know the name of a few, heck even one will do, that might point me in the right direction to research?

 

[Safeway]

A trade union as in, a union for a trade? Like the steel workers union? If so, then would this be a trade union for researchers?

If so, I will ask my girlfriend, who is in research.