How to Use unionized in a Sentence
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Right-to-work allows those in unionized jobs to opt out of paying union dues and fees.
— Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2023 -
The four unions represent more than half of the unionized rail workers.
— Tony Romm, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022 -
At that point most of the railroads already had been unionized, some all the way back to the mid-19th century.
— Chris Isidore, CNN, 2 Dec. 2022 -
Georgia is one of the country’s least unionized states.
— Tamar Hallerman, ajc, 1 Nov. 2021 -
The first unionized Starbucks store in the United States may be brewing.
— Jane Thier, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2021 -
At labor's peak in the mid-20th century, over a third of the workforce was unionized.
— Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 29 Oct. 2021 -
For the past few months, the unionized drivers and warehouse workers at UPS have tried to remind us.
— E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 27 July 2023 -
Starbucks operates more than 8,000 stores in the U.S.—none of them are unionized.
— Lisa Kim, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021 -
Workers here cannot be forced to join unions or pay dues, even if their workplace is unionized.
— Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 6 May 2024 -
Plus, how Amazon workers in New York unionized, and more.
— Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2022 -
Their jobs were more likely to be unionized, and to provide pensions.
— James Chappel, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2021 -
The Teamsters didn’t say Nov. 15 whether workers at the unionized store would also be striking.
— Dee-Ann Durbin, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2023 -
No doubt a union push will be a challenge at US banks, where fewer than 1% of workers are unionized.
— Sarah Todd, Quartz, 13 Oct. 2021 -
Prior to Vail’s purchase of Park City in 2014, ski patrollers on the Canyons side of the resort were already unionized.
— Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Jan. 2022 -
The state’s right-to-work law allows employees to opt out of joining a union and paying the dues even if the workforce is unionized.
— From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2022 -
The company says 49% of its full-time unionized workers have been with the company for more than 10 years.
— Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 18 Jan. 2023 -
In August, when the hotel unionized, there were 64 employees, 48 of which had been with the hotel pre-Covid.
— Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022 -
That’s been especially true since the number of unionized workers in the U.S. started to sharply decline in the 1970s.
— Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023 -
Nucor does most of its production in right-to-work states and is not unionized, unlike U.S. Steel.
— Dominic Pino, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023 -
Few of us think that any Starbucks location in the United States is unionized.
— Aron Solomon, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2022 -
The Big Three are the only carmakers that employ unionized workers in the United States.
— J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2023 -
In the midst of fighting to be unionized, the Pullman porters used their position to their advantage.
— Sojourner White, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2022 -
More than 90% of the several thousand players in the minors are not unionized.
— Rondald Blum, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2022 -
About 700 unionized workers walked off the job in a dispute over pay, benefits and staffing levels.
— Michael Rubinkam, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2022 -
Private workers are 6% unionized, down from 8.6% two decades ago.
— The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2023 -
The facility is located in the town of Schodack, near one of the most unionized metro areas in the country, according to Unionstats.com.
— Haleluya Hadero, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2022 -
The minor leaguers in hockey are unionized, and now the minor leaguers in baseball might be too.
— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2022 -
The labor group also this year unionized workers employed at a Disney subsidiary and who work on the Avatar films.
— Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2024 -
Musk had tweeted in 2018 that unionized workers would lose stock options.
— David Ingram, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024 -
That has been a sore spot for unionized machinists after Boeing moved its 787 Dreamliner production to a nonunion facility in South Carolina.
— Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024
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