How To Use Unionize In A Sentence

  • After that I felt that we, the workers, needed unity and I have been attempting to unionise the place.
  • On October 11, some 60,000 unionized grocery workers at 852 stores in southern California went on strike or were locked out of their jobs.
  • This is why a unionized workforce is a good thing: Disney World's costumed characters have won the right to wear their own underwear to work, after years of getting crabs and scabies from the Disney-provided articles. Boing Boing: June 10, 2001 - June 16, 2001 Archives
  • They're about to launch a campaign to unionize workers at all major discount supermarkets in the area.
  • We don't allow people to come into our plant and try to unionize the workers
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  • The automobile industry continues to be shaken up, with non-union plants far out-competing unionized ones.
  • There is still a French-speaking working class in both unionized and nonunionized fields.
  • Union workers typically earn a twenty percent premium compared to non-unionized employees.
  • Although prior to the lockout Westshore had an estimated 1 million ton stockpile of coal available to load, unionized longshore workers refused to cross the railway pickets and those who were working walked out.
  • He would like to start a union for non-unionized Olympic athletes.
  • One consequence of exclusive representation laws is that the more productive workers within a unionized workplace are usually made worse off by being legally prohibited from being paid higher than the general union scale.
  • In the United States, it is often labor unions that call for tariffs and subsidies to protect unionized industries.
  • One oddity of the new system is the windfall it will bring unionized employers.
  • They are called "doormen" and in fact they are unionized. Urban test
  • The newly unionized dancers of the ballet have already hit a rocky road with company management.
  • Union leaders, however, said the action recalled the techniques of violence and intimidation used against the longshoremen during their attempts to unionize in the 1930s.
  • There are signs of solidarity action in unionised workplaces.
  • Alabama tends to be a standout; it has a lot of auto manufacturing but not U.S. companies, non-unionized manufacturing and they tolt (ph) that as one of their reasons why unemployment is a little lower there. CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2009
  • Candidates for graduate issues officer were asked whether they would cross picket lines should unionised workers on campus go on strike.
  • Most of those killed were nonunionized workers for small companies.
  • The auto workers decided to unionize
  • It is important to note that almost all blue-collar workers in unionized workplaces are union members in the South Korean auto industry.
  • a unionized shop
  • The first is to organize, unionize, or whatever you want to call it, and join the fight for a bigger piece of that limited pie.
  • If this Democratic president stops that Democratic congressman from knee-capping school reform to protect unionized teachers from the world the rest of us live in, you can mark down August 2010 as a first step back from the crack-up. The Liberal Dilemma
  • We need to look at something that is not driven just by ideology, or that is the politically correct approach of this Government - a bunch of trade unionists who now want to unionise everyone.
  • The auto workers decided to unionize.
  • Academics at unionized institutions tend to fare better than their nonunionized peers.
  • A third of the nation's 265,000 unionized hotel and restaurant workers have been laid off.
  • Sounds like the chicken catchers, who are trying to unionize, are going to be a dying breed soon.
  • Its 460,000 unionized factory workers and retirees still have a top-dollar medical plan, and no one gets laid off without getting most of their pay indefinitely.
  • They are clearly seeking to bust the unions in a state that is already less than 4 percent unionized.
  • Principals and unionized teachers are not irreconcilable enemies.
  • The construction workers were fully unionised, and union officers are to meet shortly with the contractors to discuss the lay-offs.
  • The term redneck was also used in The West Virginia Coal Miners March (1921) or the Battle of Blair Mountain when coal miners wore red bandannas around their necks to identify themselves as seeking the opportunity to unionize. Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • Corporations, especially non-unionized ones, are highly authoritarian structures where workers have little democratic control.
  • The problems are compounded in Florida, one of twenty-two ‘right to work’ states, where union dues are not compulsory in unionized workplaces.
  • It serves to split the working class, pitting unionized against nonunionized sections, to the mutual detriment of both.
  • They also refuse to allow their employees to unionize, and generally pay low wages, and instead of hiring more people install automated tellers Wal-mart is having a horrible effect on rural communities and the U.S. ecomony. He Said Wal-Mart, She Said Target
  • Time to start thinking about what kind of a system would let these unionized workers keep their right to collective representation and maintain a decent living while still maximizing efficiency in automatable industries. Un transit « BuzzMachine
  • Remarkably for a supposedly ‘liberal’ institution such as a university, attempts to unionise postgraduate teaching staff have been vigorously resisted by some US universities.
  • It would lead to waste, capital misallocation, lower productivity and inefficient, unionised monopolies. Times, Sunday Times
  • In Beantown, city officials want to install GPS tracking devices to make sure unionized drivers aren't goofing off or endangering schoolchildren.
  • We've got some organisers who don't have such a portfolio but are responsible for organising in non-union and poorly unionised workplaces.
  • Many of the non-unionized are migrant workers who leave poverty in the countryside to seek informal factory jobs in coastal boomtowns.
  • Yet regulated vivisection has been confounded with antivivisection by the union of zany cranks and trade-unionized men of medicine, who have not refrained from the coercion of patients, from the deception of the public, from the inoculation of legislators with mendacity, capsuled in sophistry, and from the direct or indirect corruption or intimidation of not a few public journals. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals
  • Patrick had restructured its organization, setting up labor-supply subsidiaries as employers of its unionized workforces.
  • Patrick had restructured its organization, setting up labor-supply subsidiaries as employers of its unionized workforces.
  • I have worked in both union and non-unionized manufacturing facilities.
  • If the 1,500 or so workers at the factory attempt to unionize, he added, they will be fired and blacklisted.
  • The statistics also show that women unionists are significantly better off than their non unionised sisters earning on average $119 a week more.
  • Japanese carmakers have avoided such burdens by generally employing younger, nonunionized workers.
  • More than 100 years ago, unionized newsboys in New York City waged a successful strike against newspaper barons Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.
  • Still, union workers have fared better than nonunionized employees in terms of their layoff conditions.
  • Republicans in Congress are taking aim at the National Labor Relations Board, which issued a relatively minor proposed rule change allowing workers to vote on whether to unionize soon after a union has been proposed, rather than allowing employers to delay the vote for years. Robert Reich: Why the Republican War on Workers' Rights Undermines the American Economy
  • Nonunionized -- nongrowing (cattle feeding excellent example): Almost always facing Purchaser unification which eliminates creditable Wages or Profits, almost always dealing with big-ticket items like health care or cattle and surviving upon single Payment euphoria: no real upside, as the Purchaser unification turns into Seller unification, so Consumer prices remain high. lgl Productivity vs. Distribution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • The book could very well be about any workers - perhaps even non-unionized workers.
  • One of the decisions found faculty members at Manhattan College eligible to unionize; the other enabled graduate assistants at New York University to bargain collectively.
  • For example, you can decide along unionized versus non-unionized employees, or by groupings of knowledge workers.
  • The Republicans aren't angling for bankruptcy because they want to protect their own own non-unionized auto industry from competition.
  • But their attempts to unionize are going to fail, because their replacements are already on the way.
  • With the help of Local 1877, some were hired by other unionized cleaning companies, others found employment in small, nonunion janitorial firms, and still others found work as cooks, dishwashers, and in other menial jobs.
  • The film also strongly insinuates that the public education system is utterly broken and the solutions are found in bolting the system to privately run, publicly funded, non-unionized charter schools. What public school teachers really need
  • This insight grew organically from the nature of the unionized workplace.
  • To measure unionization, respondents were asked if they were personally a member of a union or if there were any unionized employees within their workplace.
  • It may well be the case that the programmes have delivered industrial peace in the public sector and in unionised employments in the private sector, but at what price?
  • FedEx Corp. is starting what it describes as a multimillion-dollar campaign to derail proposed federal legislation that would make it easier for the company's workers to unionize. FedEx Begins Campaign Against Labor Bill
  • A US garment factory where workers are unionized is not likely to be a sweatshop.
  • They have trade - unionized most of the workers.
  • In other business, the delegate assembly voted to encourage MLA members to unionize when possible and to support the unionizing efforts of other campus workers.
  • Rather than compromise with the drivers, the plan called for a strategy of no negotiations and replacement of the unionized with nonunionized drivers.
  • It is now mandatory for all unionized workplaces to post union de-certification procedures.
  • About 360 students voted to unionize last March as a last-ditch attempt to pressure the administration over low pay and working conditions.
  • Many industries, such as construction, agriculture and mining have been almost entirely de-unionised.
  • So why is the Mission opposing their workers’ attempts to unionize?
  • He opined that deregulation of business would unfetter the natural entrepreneurial heroes of capitalism to create vast wealth and it would trickle down to the public, if we de-unionized too. Stephen Herrington: The State of the Union Is: Appalling
  • The right is renewing its efforts to pass state and federal right-to-work laws that prohibit requiring employees in a unionized workplace to pay dues to unions.
  • unionized workers
  • They're about to launch a campaign to unionize workers at all major discount supermarkets in the area.
  • This breakdown in industrial relations can only escalate after the general election, whoever wins, as the 'axemen' begin hacking jobs and services in the strongly unionised public sector. Socialist Party Main leads
  • Of the nonunionized workers, 5.4 percent claimed; of the unionized workers, 13.6 percent claimed.
  • Unionized truckers have also refused to cross to make deliveries or pickups.
  • It is always hard for such workers to get justice, especially in nonunionised workplaces. Times, Sunday Times
  • Other factories, she says, also refuse to subcontract with the shop because of its unionized workforce.
  • Foreign-owned car plants in the US, which employ few unionized workers, have no such headaches.
  • The Peak was accepting contracts to typeset publications for other companies at rates far below those of unionised typesetting shops.
  • A 1907 attempt by labor organizers to unionize the Ashio copper mines was only put down by thousands of army troops.
  • They're about to launch a campaign to unionize workers at all major discount supermarkets in the area.
  • While that question does not depend, it seems to me, on whether the workplace is unionized, there is the further aspect in this case that the workplace is unionized pursuant to collective agreements with various unions including CUPE.
  • The right is renewing its efforts to pass state and federal right-to-work laws that prohibit requiring employees in a unionized workplace to pay dues to unions.
  • An AT & T spokesman says many unionized workers being cut will be eligible for such positions.
  • Maquilas prefer to employ young women, often as young as fourteen, because the owners believe that young women are easier to control and less likely to attempt to unionize.
  • Within a year of this change virtually every unionized contractor had established spin-off companies.
  • The lesson for unions seeking to organise the unionised workplace is - ignore the supervisor at your peril.
  • Workers at foreign companies' nonunion shops make roughly the same in wages and benefits as unionized employees in Detroit.
  • Tying more pay to profits would make it easier for the Detroit companies to be labor-cost competitive with the non-unionized U.S. plants of foreign-owned auto makers such as Toyota Motor Corp. and Hyundai Motor Co. Auto makers have endorsed some form of pay-for-performance in the last two years. UAW Shifts Stance on Pay Increases
  • With the Supreme Court's 2002 Hoffman decision, undocumented immigrant laborers have no legal standing to sue for back pay when fired for attempting to unionize.
  • In one of the largest Statehouse rallies ever, thousands of unionized government workers and social-service advocates rallied for an income-tax hike that could avert billions of dollars in crippling budget cuts. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Raise our Taxes!
  • That's a question we will all be debating this year when contract negotiations open between unionized nurses and the government.
  • Too bad federal law makes it virtually impossible to unionize a company that doesn't want to be unionized, isn't it?
  • The Board of Governors voted unanimously to allow the administrators to unionize.
  • The piece restages the 12-hour interrogation of a maquiladora laborer accused of attempting to unionize workers.
  • The anti-union offensive aims at driving down the rank-and-file workers, both unionized and non-unionized.
  • One reason is that it is much harder to unionize an unorganized workplace than most of us realize.
  • A moribund economy and the decline of traditionally unionized industries eroded the base of the labor movement.
  • If your workplace is unionised, it is generally negotiated with union representatives.
  • For the first time this year, the nonunionized town employees did not get their annual raise, she said.
  • In bigger unionised plants there may be a shop steward superstructure, headed by a convenor who might spend most or all of his time on union business.
  • Universities have generally opposed any attempts to organize, arguing that graduate students are students and not employees, and therefore have no right to unionize.
  • Due to the shortfall in Nutcracker income, all non-unionized staff agreed to take a temporary salary cut through June.
  • We need good safety programs in Canada to protect workers from accidents, but I did not sign up to a member of a union, and I’m not going to be dragged down into some kind of collusive governmental-unionized regulatory control of the privatized industry. 2009 January 08 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
  • By making it hard for us to unionize these workers, they are showing that they want to bust the union.
  • Historically they have been pretty much part of executive remuneration packages and have been more common in large public companies and in highly unionised workplaces.
  • We have a policy of open conversation and mutual respect, said Kenn Sparks , a spokesman for BMW, which runs a non-unionized plant in Spartanburg, S.C. UAW Sets New Tactic to Organize at Foreign Car Makers
  • This might be done if that employee was part of an effort to try to unionize or organize in any way with other employees.
  • To measure unionization, respondents were asked if they were personally a member of a union or if there were any unionized employees within their workplace.
  • The study found that supercenter wages are from $2.5 to $3.5 an hour lower than those of unionized grocery workers.
  • In Washington, once workers at a company vote to unionise, every employee can be forced to join (and pay dues to) the union.
  • He joined the Labour Party, and even attempted to unionise professional players.
  • They also saw massive overstaffing and bloated benefits deals with unionised workers from pilots to flight attendants to cleaners. Times, Sunday Times
  • The rhetoric of slavery has been applied to a variety of social movements, such as the quest for equal rights for women or attempts to unionize American workers.
  • Giffy has it right by stating that the Seattle City Light workers seeking to unionize are well paid with good working conditions. Afternoon Fizz: Shhh. Don’t Tell Mike McGinn « PubliCola
  • That, he said, would involve dockers and all other unionised workers in Belview Port.
  • However, he says, "noncooperation" by unionized actors is appropriate when nonunion actors are used without permission. Modern Times:
  • They're about to launch a campaign to unionize workers at all major discount supermarkets in the area.
  • Back in the mid-1990s, the union leaders got the idea to unionize my then small business with its six production employees.
  • At best, they must shift to some other nonunionized industry.

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