as in to organize
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Recent Examples of unionize
This is the second bargaining cycle for Hearst Magazines, whose staffers voted to unionize during the Covid lockdown in 2020.
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Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026
Issues at Bowen Tower Barlow said that she and her neighbors were inspired to unionize after watching the Independence Towers tenant union successfully achieve better living conditions through a similar rent strike nearby.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2026
College athletes are not currently recognized as employees, which is important under labor law, as only employees can unionize and collectively bargain.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Thanks to years of work by UNITE HERE, the Las Vegas Strip is now 100 percent union, and the United Auto Workers notched an electrifying victory in Chattanooga, Tennessee when workers at the Volkswagen factory voted to unionize.
—Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
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Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026
Issues at Bowen Tower Barlow said that she and her neighbors were inspired to unionize after watching the Independence Towers tenant union successfully achieve better living conditions through a similar rent strike nearby.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2026
College athletes are not currently recognized as employees, which is important under labor law, as only employees can unionize and collectively bargain.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Thanks to years of work by UNITE HERE, the Las Vegas Strip is now 100 percent union, and the United Auto Workers notched an electrifying victory in Chattanooga, Tennessee when workers at the Volkswagen factory voted to unionize.
—Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
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Below is a recap of the C-suite developments at America’s highest-revenue-generating companies announced between March 7–13, 2026 organized by sector.—
Fortune Editors,
Fortune,
13 Mar. 2026
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In the first part of the film, Grossman rewinds the tapes of the 1996 trip, organized by a Brazilian civil servant and Swedish journalist Erling Söderström to meet the Korubo tribe, who chose to live far away from civilization.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Mar. 2026
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The government took a genuine invitation to collaborate as a perfidious power grab.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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The companies will collaborate to enhance the Air Force’s multi-cloud architecture.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Mar. 2026
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“Unionize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unionize. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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