autoworker

noun

au·to·work·er ˈȯ-tō-ˌwər-kər

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: a person employed in the automobile manufacturing industry

Examples of autoworker in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Biden criticized six Southern Republican governors, including Bill Lee of Tennessee, who told autoworkers this week that voting for union representation would jeopardize jobs. —

David Koenig, Fortune, 22 Apr. 2024 Biden — who joined a UAW picket line in Michigan during the union's strike against Ford, GM and Stellantis plants last year — praised the success of unions representing autoworkers, Hollywood actors and writers, health care workers and others in gaining better contracts. —

David Koenig, Quartz, 20 Apr. 2024 Over 10,000 non-union autoworkers have signed cards in support of the UAW in recent months and organizing campaigns have broken out at more than two dozen facilities, the union said in a statement last month. —

Max Zahn, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2024 The autoworker union’s endorsement has strong implications for the key battleground states of Michigan and Wisconsin; Biden narrowly won both states in 2020. —

Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024 Over 1,000 workers at Volkswagen’s Tennessee factory have signed on to Fain’s campaign to unionize every autoworker outside Detroit. —

Chloe Berger, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2023 In a statement, the UAW wrote the election at Volkswagen marks the latest breakthrough in its national movement of nonunion autoworkers organizing to join the UAW. —

Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2024 Trump’s visit to Michigan during the UAW strike in the fall featured a rally with autoworkers at a nonunion shop, while Biden joined striking workers on a picket line, becoming the first sitting president to do so. —

Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024 Trump also has argued that autoworkers will lose their jobs because of the new standards as China dominates the EV market. —

Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2024

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