How to Use unionized in a Sentence

unionized

adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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 state’s right-to-work law allows employees to opt out of joining a union and paying the dues even if the workforce is unionized.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The company says 49% of its full-time unionized workers have been with the company for more than 10 years.
    Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 18 Jan. 2023
  • In August, when the hotel unionized, there were 64 employees, 48 of which had been with the hotel pre-Covid.
    Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022
  • That’s been especially true since the number of unionized workers in the U.S. started to sharply decline in the 1970s.
    Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Nucor does most of its production in right-to-work states and is not unionized, unlike U.S. Steel.
    Dominic Pino, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The Big Three are the only carmakers that employ unionized workers in the United States.
    J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • About 700 unionized workers walked off the job in a dispute over pay, benefits and staffing levels.
    Michael Rubinkam, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Private workers are 6% unionized, down from 8.6% two decades ago.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The facility is located in the town of Schodack, near one of the most unionized metro areas in the country, according to Unionstats.com.
    Haleluya Hadero, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The total number of unionized workers hardly changed last year.
    Nr Editors, National Review, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The number of newly unionized workers could be between 12 and 20 workers.
    Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Hanawalt also shouted out the writers and animators who worked on the show and were unionized during its run.
    Vulture, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Anchor became the first unionized craft brewery in the nation, approving a three-year contract in 2020.
    Louis Biscotti, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • The strike has been strategic and targeted, and the majority of unionized autoworkers remain on the job.
    Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The union sought a vote in Chattanooga in 2014 and faced no opposition from the company, whose worldwide plants are mostly unionized.
    Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The country may also get its only unionized strip club in November.
    Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island unionized last year, but have yet to get a contract.
    Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • Molson Coors said about 30% of its North American work force is unionized, but much of that is the workers at three Canadian breweries.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The company announced another raise to take effect Jan. 1, but said some of the new benefits would not be available to unionized stores.
    Emily Wright, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Four of 12 unions have already voted down the agreement and those four unions represent the majority of unionized rail workers.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Teachers’ unions, too, are major political players and disapprove of the schools, which tend not to be unionized.
    Troy Closson, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Nearly all Illinois workers in the public sector are unionized.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Yet the council’s mandates won’t apply to unionized businesses.
    Matt Haller, Fortune, 7 July 2023
  • But here in the U.S., only 6 percent of all private-sector workers are unionized, and almost none of them are minimum-wage workers.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 26 Jan. 2023
  • To be sure, only 10 percent of American workers are unionized.
    Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023

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