How to Use unionize in a Sentence

unionize

verb

• Workers are fighting for the right to unionize.
• The victory marked the first car plant in the South to unionize with a vote since the 1940s.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 14 May 2024
• In the 1950s over a third of all workers in the United States in the private sector were unionized.
  — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2023
• The Apple store in Maryland was the first to unionize for the company in 2022.
  — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 12 May 2024
• So far, over 70 stores have voted to unionize, Forbes writes.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 23 June 2022
• The push to unionize Starbucks is one of the most high-profile labor campaigns in decades.
  — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
• And a group of flight attendants at Delta is seeking to unionize and ask for more.
  — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 10 May 2024
• That store became one of the first in the country to unionize, and union staff walked out after his firing.
  — Xinyan Fu, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2022
• Biden has said his 2024 campaign staff will be unionized.
  — Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2023
• Against all odds, 19 workers in that store voted to unionize.
  — Roy Bahat, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024
• At least 370 Starbucks stores have voted to unionize since then.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
• One of the latest to unionize is in Bellingham, Washington.
  — Renata Geraldo, Chicago Tribune, 26 Oct. 2022
• More than 220 Starbucks stores have already voted to unionize in less than a year.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 2 Sep. 2022
• Since then, at least 366 U.S. Starbucks have voted to unionize.
  — TIME, 19 Oct. 2023
• Chipotle is closing a Maine store that had been leading efforts to unionize the chain.
  — CBS News, 19 July 2022
• When a Chipotle in Maine filed a petition to unionize in 2022, Chipotle closed it.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2024
• The votes were part of a national effort that has led to 374 stores unionizing over roughly two years.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2024
• Fourteen workers voted to unionize at the Starbucks in Clarksville, across the river from Louisville.
  — Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 29 July 2022
• Two of the Seattle stores that are closing have voted to unionize, while one of the Portland stores has petitioned to hold a union vote.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022
• The move comes as Starbucks employees across the country have been voting to unionize.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 13 July 2022
• The closures include some stores that have also voted to unionize.
  — Heather Haddon, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
• An attempt to unionize Nissan in 2017 failed to win enough support from workers.
  — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
• About six months later, the food-service workers had voted to unionize.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
• Workers at at Lordstown, Ohio plant voted to unionize last year.
  — Anna Katharine Ping, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2023
• In March, the Long Beach Post laid off nine staffers after newsroom employees moved to unionize and went on strike to protest the impending cuts.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
• The government will hold a vote among the workers about whether to unionize, the regional director wrote.
  — Josh Eidelson, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2023
• Eight health care provider workforces have unionized since Roe v. Wade was overturned last summer.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2023
• Since 2021, Starbucks workers at hundreds of stores across the country have voted to unionize.
  — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• Burnout, fueled in part by the app, helped inspire some employees to unionize, beginning in 2021.
  — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2024
• Drivers are pushing back and taking steps toward unionizing.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024