How to Use anti-union in a Sentence

anti-union

adjective
  • The anti-union stance at Starbucks must be laid at his door.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Police and fire unions have been carved out of anti-union laws for decades.
    Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The fruits of the collective agreement are a sign that the anti-union era sparked more than 40 years ago is over.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2023
  • That additional time affords greater opportunity for anti-union employers to dissuade workers.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2024
  • These days, White wears an anti-union sticker on his shirt and carries extras to hand out to whoever wants one.
    Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
  • And on Wednesday, the Biden campaign announced the release of a new ad in Michigan attacking Trump as anti-union.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • In 1960, the actors’ strike was led by none other than Ronald Reagan, who went on to become one of the country’s more anti-union Presidents.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Starbucks’s anti-union campaign has been most intense in Buffalo, a working-class city where the union drive began.
    Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2023
  • The memes range from harping on Musk’s outspoken anti-union rhetoric amid the historic Detroit auto workers’ strike to more, well, crude content.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Tesla will have to skip trash day in Sweden as the country’s labor groups continue to protest the company’s anti-union policies.
    Umar Shakir, The Verge, 13 Dec. 2023
  • That would be a blessing for Elon Musk and his historically anti-union Tesla.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Cheered on by Otis and the Times, L.A. leaders passed a law banning picketing and the city became a national symbol of anti-union sentiment.
    Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • This is the Deep South, after all, where anti-union attitudes are enshrined in state constitutions.
    Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 6 May 2024
  • Instead of following the same playbook of anti-union practices, Wells Fargo needs to work with us to find solutions and better serve our customers.
    Debbie Warren, Fortune, 10 July 2023
  • In the filings, the company was further accused of forcing workers to attend anti-union meetings that were set up to discourage them from joining the union.
    Marco Marcelline, PCMAG, 11 Mar. 2023
  • His testimony comes as Starbucks employees walked out of more than 100 stores last week across the United States to protest the company's anti-union efforts.
    Rachel Looker, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Michigan recently became the first state in more than half a century to restore power to workers by repealing its anti-union right-to-work law.
    Raina Lipsitz, The New Republic, 1 May 2023
  • Starbucks shareholders want more information about the company's anti-union efforts Starbucks and the union have yet to sign a contract.
    Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 2 Apr. 2023
  • In recent weeks, a number of Alabama politicians have spoken out against the vote, concerned that their state's pro-business, anti-union reputation could take a hit.
    Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 13 May 2024
  • But unlike at Volkswagen, Mercedes workers say they have been barraged at work with anti-union videos highlighting the failures of unions elsewhere and forced to join closed-door meetings with lawyers.
    Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 13 May 2024
  • These anti-union ads are an attempt to combat the new legislation and blunt recent organizing wins.
    Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Amazon has an anti-safety, anti-union track record Amazon’s workplace safety has come under scrutiny in the past.
    Julia Malleck, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Schultz's testimony comes after Starbucks employees walked out of more than 100 stores last week to protest the company's anti-union efforts.
    Julius Lasin, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The plants have television monitors in break rooms and cafeterias that run pro-company and anti-union messaging.
    Stephen J. Silvia, The Conversation, 21 May 2024
  • Whether that sentiment translates into action remains to be seen, but the recent firings suggest that Starbucks is sticking with its anti-union stance.
    Julia Malleck, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2023
  • But the prospect of further flight of manufacturing facilities to southern anti-union states has motivated the union’s drive for safeguards against plant closings in the North and Midwest.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • An anti-union group put up a billboards outside the convention calling O'Brien two-faced for engaging with Republicans.
    Sophia Cai, Axios, 15 July 2024
  • Then 16 sticks of dynamite exploded at the anti-union newspaper, and people began dying.
    Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
  • Ahead of the vote, hundreds of Disneyland employees protested outside the world-famous theme park on July 17, calling for better wages and denouncing anti-union practices.
    Lucia Suarez Sang, CBS News, 20 July 2024
  • Workers shared that anti-union consultants passed out materials explicitly encouraging workers to 'vote no' in a union election.
    Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2024

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