autoworker

noun

au·​to·​work·​er ˈȯ-tō-ˌwər-kər How to pronounce autoworker (audio)
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: a person employed in the automobile manufacturing industry

Examples of autoworker in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Existing autoworkers in internal combustion engine plants worry about losing jobs – and Congress has not acted to protect workers, says Dr. Greer. Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2024 Just over a week after the Big 3 autoworkers ratified their record contracts, Mercedes workers began signing union cards. Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 6 May 2024 Trump blasted Biden's push to encourage electric vehicle production and sales as an economic disaster for autoworkers and drivers. Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 6 May 2024 Just a decade prior, 27-year-old Vincent Chin was killed by two white autoworkers who had mistaken him for being Japanese and stealing their jobs. Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 26 Apr. 2024 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

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Word History

Etymology

auto entry 1 + worker

First Known Use

1901, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of autoworker was in 1901

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“Autoworker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/autoworker. Accessed 14 May. 2024.

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