How to Use union in a Sentence

union

1 of 2 noun

• She joined the teachers' union.
• An embryo is created through the union of sperm and egg.
• The state of the union is fine, but how are its people?
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
• Others take issue with the unions at the forefront of the protests.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
• The newsroom’s union staged a one-day walkout in protest of the layoffs.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
• The inventions will keep coming, whether the unions like it or not.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• The budget cuts drew fury from the city's teachers and police unions.
  — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 18 Nov. 2023
• Condé Nast has for months been engaged in a standoff with its union.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024
• The union has made that a top priority this time around.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 Jan. 2024
• On March 27, the union, which represents most of the city’s officers, sued Moore.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• So the union between Elodie and Prince Henry is a trap, a sinister plot to sacrifice the princess to the dragon.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2024
• On Wednesday, the union announced that 92% of Powell’s workers have voted to go on strike.
  — oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2023
• Starbucks has pushed back hard against the union campaign brewing in its coffee shops.
  — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2023
• Biden, wearing a union ball cap and carrying a bullhorn, stood with Fain at the picket line.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2023
• Striking workers are receiving $500 a week from the union’s strike pay fund.
  — Tom Krisher, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• Striking workers are receiving $500 a week from the union's strike pay fund.
  — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2023
• Leaders from the two major train crew unions and a firefighters’ union joined Buttigieg at the event announcing the rule.
  — Tony Romm, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
• If the performer in question is dead, the studio must clear it with a representative or with the union.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• The company has refused to extend that language, the union coalition said.
  — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2023
• The strike will end when the studios and the union agree on a new contract, and the majority of union members vote to ratify that contract.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 July 2023
• But Hawley is showing support for left-wing unions in more than just photo ops.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 11 Oct. 2023
• The union will continue striking until a deal is reached, Petersen said.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• The union said in a news release Wednesday that more than 30% of the Mercedes-Benz plant’s workforce signed union authorization cards.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 10 Jan. 2024
• Gypsy’s dad and stepmom, who forged a strong bond with her over the past eight years while providing for her needs in prison, were initially against the union.
  — Janine Rubenstein, Peoplemag, 7 Jan. 2024
• Republicans who seek the ‘union vote’ or push for union endorsements are on a fool’s errand.
  — John Tillman, National Review, 16 Nov. 2023
• The message from the union triggered calls to boycott Starbucks, when some appeared to mistake the union's position for that of the company.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2023
• After 70 percent, the UAW will demand that the company recognize the union.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
• Modern pensions are largely confined to the public sector, where unions have helped keep them alive.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
• Six months later, the couple’s union ended in an annulment.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
• Leno performed a similar delivery service when the union last went on strike 15 years ago.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 5 May 2023

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union

2 of 2 adjective

• The case could decide the fate of a pro-union law dating back to the era of César Chávez.
  — Brian McGill, WSJ, 7 June 2021
• The industry has long been fraught with challenges for the non-union workforce.
  — Binghui Huang, IndyStar, 19 Oct. 2022
• Three non-union stores in Seattle received the same notice.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2022
• Apple even hired the same anti-union lawyers as Starbucks.
  — Quartz, 1 Nov. 2022
• According to the pro-union group More Perfect Union, unions have won 122 elections.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 7 June 2022
• Scabs refers to non-union employees who were brought in to work as replacements for the workers on strike.
  — Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 17 June 2022
• For Asians, non-union male workers make $230 a week more than unionized workers.
  — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
• Chicago Democrats touted the state’s pro-union stance and its deep base of political donors.
  — Greg Bluestein The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (tns), al, 12 Apr. 2023
• Passing a pro-union bill that creates troubling safety incentives is not the way to do that.
  — The Editors, National Review, 21 Mar. 2023
• The plant, like the Japanese automaker’s other factories in the U.S., are non-union.
  — Keith Laing, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2021
• Earlier in the campaign, Lasry released a pro-union blueprint to raise wages.
  — Journal Sentinel, 20 Oct. 2022
• With large numbers of people leaving who’ve climbed to the top of the salary ladder, money could be freed up to improve pay for non-union managers.
  — Jon Lender, courant.com, 29 May 2021
• In the longer term, Amazon may be betting that some pro-union employees will move on to other jobs, Christman said.
  — NBC News, 25 Apr. 2022
• Disney's policy will apply to all salaried and non-union hourly employees in the U.S. working at any of its sites.
  — NBC News, 30 July 2021
• He was fired after six months for his pro-union activities.
  — Mary Rourke, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2021
• So far, its efforts have fizzled amid concerns about traffic and lower-wage, non-union jobs.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2021
• In the non-union jobs, there was arbitrary discipline, pay cuts, and termination of long-term workers, where in the union shop, those things were rare.
  — Jim Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2021
• The auditions in Arlington seek non-union vocalists and dancer/singers (ages 18 to 30) from Dallas-Fort Worth.
  — Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2023
• Instead, the pros said, the main sources of non-union jobs are music videos, documentaries and extremely low-budget films.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• Wesley told him that anti-union workers were spreading false rumors that Smalls had bought her a Mercedes.
  — Greg Jaffe, Washington Post, 12 June 2022
• The employees also say their stores have been visited by out-of-town managers and higher-ups like Rossann Williams who show up to press the anti-union case.
  — Josh Eidelson, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2021
• Under the surface, both unions suffered from a growing anti-union climate.
  — Peter Labuza, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2022
• Amazon countered with the full force of its anti-union apparatus.
  — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2022
• The deal does not include non-union employees and state legislators.
  — Kaitlin McCallum, courant.com, 1 Apr. 2022
• Biden, a Democrat, has described himself as the most pro-union president in history.
  — Reuters, CNN, 23 May 2022
• Disney announced last month that all non-union hourly and salaried employees would be required to receive the vaccine within 60 days.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2021
• After six years, Sophie took a non-union job as a project accountant in the construction industry.
  — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 4 Feb. 2022
• The non-union employee pay will increase 2.5%, effective Jan. 1.
  — Elizabeth Owens-Schiele, chicagotribune.com, 27 Dec. 2021
• The vote is notable considering the company’s anti-union stance.
  — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2021
• In an interview, Mr. Daniels said he, too, had sometimes been excluded from anti-union meetings for over one week.
  — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024