How to Use unionized in a Sentence

unionized

adjective

• In fact, the state is home to the only Mercedes-Benz plant in the world that isn't unionized.
  — Joseph Pisani, Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
• In 1970, almost a third of the U.S. workforce were unionized.
  — CBS News, 12 Mar. 2021
• 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
• Many chose white collar or tech jobs that don’t tend to be unionized.
  — Karen Caffarini, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Minor league players aren’t unionized and their salaries are set by the teams.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Apr. 2021
• 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
• The employees at the Lebanon and Jacksonville sites are not unionized and do not have bumping rights.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 4 Apr. 2025
• And like it or not, many unionized workers voted for him.
  — John Samuelsen, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
• Now, all of the state’s unionized workers will get the 2% increases that were in their contracts.
  — Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• The jobs that exist pay poorly, even in many of the unionized industries.
  — Nikil Saval, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Kroger and Albertsons are the rare unionized shops in retail.
  — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 10 Dec. 2024
• For Asians, non-union male workers make $230 a week more than unionized workers.
  — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
• Right-to-work states are those where employees don't have to join a union if their workplace is unionized.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2020
• But few offer the pay or protection once promised by a unionized mill.
  — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2020
• 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
• The pause freed workers from their 80-hour weeks, giving the unionized, the nonunionized, and even the unpaid time to organize.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Santos Padilla worked as a line cook for years in a unionized restaurant.
  — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 25 Jan. 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
• During boom years, miners unionized and won concessions that propelled them into the middle class.
  — Ben Paviour, New York Times, 19 May 2025
• Cuts to the budget, including those that will negatively affect the city’s mainly unionized workforce (and, yes, could reduce services), have to be part of the mix needed to truly balance the books.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2025