How to Use unionism in a Sentence

unionism

noun

• The days of pure and simple bread-and-butter unionism in UTLA are over.
  — Howard Blumestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• Then there is the excessive nostalgia for the heyday of trade unionism.
  — Matthew Bishop, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2016
• Which brings us to last month’s Supreme Court decision on public-sector unionism.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 6 July 2018
• Repealing right-to-work in Michigan—a cradle of American unionism—could be just the jolt the labor movement needs.
  — Steven Greenhouse, The New Republic, 29 Dec. 2022
• Though unionism has been in decline for decades, the public sector has remained a stronghold of organised labour.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• The second important problem is the one involved in the internal dispute over the type of labor unionism to be fostered in this country.
  — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
• Though unionist when founded, the Alliance Party has become neutral on unionism, and now appeals to Catholic voters too.
  — Shafi Musaddique, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2022
• My own research shows that the effects of unionism depend on the relationship forged in the workplace between labor and management.
  — Harry C. Katz, Fortune, 2 May 2022
• Their rank-and-file model of unionism—by us, for us—demanded hours of work outside of work, and everyone at the table admitted to exhaustion.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2022
• The culture worker strikes also betoken something of a return to an earlier time of unionism.
  — Alissa Quart, The New Republic, 29 Nov. 2022
• The Times was literally the celebrated centerpiece of anti-unionism for such a long time.
  — Sydney Ember, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018
• Several members were drawn to trade unionism, involving themselves, for instance, in the garment workers strike of 1909.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
• Issues of great importance to labor and to the nation are centered in the current dispute between industrial and craft unionism.
  — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
• This kind of campus-wide organizing reflects the growing shift toward rank-and-file unionism within the #RedforEd movement.
  — Kim Kelly, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2019
• The employees ultimately backed down, rejecting the notion of unionism for what seemed in part to be cultural reasons.
  — New York Times, 13 June 2021
• Support for Scottish independence and unionism remains split down the middle.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
• Britain’s monarchy would need to come up with a very good reason for empire unionism, which today may be a letter even more dead in UK politics than outright republicanism.
  — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
• In the nineteen-sixties and seventies, the leading political party in Italy was the Communist Party, and its causes went far beyond trade unionism, which was a given.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2020
• Shuler: Wisconsin has a storied tradition of worker activism and unionism.
  — Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2022
• In other environments, such as a Detroit Three auto plant with thousands of employees, unionism is ingrained in the culture itself.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2021
• Business unionism, which organizes around specific goals for employees rather than a wider class struggle, was the dominant orientation of the labor movement in the U.S. though much of the 20th century.
  — Ruben J. Garcia, The Conversation, 21 Feb. 2020
• The West Virginia teachers found ways to organize and act outside the usual parameters of traditional unionism.
  — Jess Bidgood and Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
• The Janus back story illustrates the corrupting influence of public-sector unionism.
  — James Taranto, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
• Looking at some contemporary controversies from this angle of unionism reveals a few things.
  — Fred Bauer, National Review, 28 Aug. 2019
• In a place where color carries huge weight — green signifies Catholic nationalism, orange Protestant unionism — the Giants chose a soothing and apolitical teal for their uniforms.
  — Brian T. Brown, NBC News, 15 May 2022
• Despite this lavish outlay, both candidates have presented themselves as friends of the working class, acknowledging Montana’s past and present as a relative bastion of unionism.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2020
• With unionism sweeping the nation right now, and a new generation of young workers embracing the old ideal of solidarity, Biden has ensured that a veto would be a stain on Newsom’s progressive credentials, now and in the future.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2022
• Republican stances on economic issues — anti-unionism and opposition to public welfare — pitted them against the poor.
  — Richard A. Gallun, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2020
• The murder mystery becomes entangled, at times awkwardly, with larger social issues like unionism, anarchism and the women’s suffrage movement.
  — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 4 May 2018
• This could both remove understandable employer objections to the current all-or-nothing nature of American unionism and provide unions themselves with other ways to advocate for their members.
  — Eli Lehrer, National Review, 25 July 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024