How to Use autoworker in a Sentence
autoworker
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This made more Southern autoworkers want to join the union.
— Stephen J. Silvia, The Conversation, 21 May 2024 -
Laid-off autoworkers want to tell a story of hope, too.
— Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 19 May 2017 -
But whether the thousands of autoworkers in Greater Cleveland will strike is still not clear.
— Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 14 Sep. 2023 -
The new union got the minimum increased to about $14 per day, but that's still less than a U.S. autoworker earns in an hour.
— Mark Stevenson, ajc, 12 Feb. 2023 -
The autoworkers at Toledo are some of the members who have been on strike the longest -- since the earliest hours of Sept. 15.
— Breana Noble The Detroit News (tns), Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2023 -
The last autoworkers strike was also against GM, and lasted three days.
— Brenna Cammeron, CNN, 17 Sep. 2019 -
Autoworkers used to have a lot of great-paying jobs building cars.
— Sarah Jones, New Republic, 22 June 2017 -
But repos soared on bad news, such as with the loss of 1,500 autoworker jobs in Lordstown, Ohio, announced this year.
— Todd C. Frankel, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2018 -
Nearly 5,000 autoworkers have been laid off since the strike began last month.
— Rebecca Angelo, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023 -
Of course, many autoworkers gladly drive the house brand out of loyalty.
— Popular Mechanics, 4 July 2017 -
An autoworker in Michigan no longer had to foot the bill for a hedge fund manager in New Jersey to write off his state tax bill.
— Daniel Bunn, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024 -
Kennedy gave his last year from a tech school that trains autoworkers, while ex-Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear went to a diner in coal country to make his pitch.
— Tamar Hallerman, The Seattle Times, 5 Feb. 2019 -
During a heat wave, hundreds of autoworkers died in plants in Michigan.
— Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023 -
And Hawley joined strike lines with autoworkers and Teamsters.
— Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 16 July 2024 -
The third- and second-generation autoworkers met on the job and got married in 2019.
— Rachel Treisman, NPR, 28 Feb. 2024 -
In the United States, the striking autoworkers have been pushing for a wage increase of 36 percent over a new four-year contract.
— Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023 -
The autoworkers were intent on getting a bigger share of the gains the company has made since its bankruptcy a decade ago.
— Erin Kirkland, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2019 -
His visit to Michigan during the UAW strike featured a rally with autoworkers at a nonunion shop.
— Tyler Pager, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024 -
The importance of autoworkers in this election cycle has been on display for some time.
— Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 19 July 2024 -
Many striking autoworkers are already back on the job and will be reflected in next month’s data.
— Christine Romans, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023 -
The big contract gains are spilling over to benefit non-unionized autoworkers, too.
— Wali Khan, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023 -
But pay is not the only issue for many autoworkers in Alabama.
— Jack Ewing, New York Times, 16 May 2024 -
The General Motors strike could affect far more than the autoworkers and the company.
— Alex Connor, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2019 -
Speaking of progress, autoworkers at General Motors approved a deal to end their 40-day strike and the first workers were back on the job this weekend.
— Charlotte Cowles, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2019 -
The strike has been strategic and targeted, and the majority of unionized autoworkers remain on the job.
— Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN, 17 Oct. 2023 -
The only criteria is the autoworker must either live in Detroit or work in Detroit.
— Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2021 -
But, unlike with rail and airline workers, the president doesn't have the authority to order autoworkers to stay on the job.
— Tom Krisher and David Koenig The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2023 -
The autoworkers union has long had its sights on other carmakers beyond Detroit's Big Three, and those companies are aware of that fact.
— Marley Jay, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023 -
Today’s autoworkers scoff at E.V.s as luxury items for people with three-car garages.
— Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024 -
Families were torn apart as unemployed autoworkers sought work out of town.
— Bob Kustra and The Reader’s Corner Team, idahostatesman, 26 Jan. 2018
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