How to Use unionized in a Sentence

unionized

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  • 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
  • Many chose white collar or tech jobs that don’t tend to be unionized.
    — Karen Caffarini, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Minor league players aren’t unionized and their salaries are set by the teams.
    — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Georgia is one of the country’s least unionized states.
    — Tamar Hallerman, ajc, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The first unionized Starbucks store in the United States may be brewing.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2021
  • At labor's peak in the mid-20th century, over a third of the workforce was unionized.
    — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 29 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Starbucks operates more than 8,000 stores in the U.S.—none of them are unionized.
    — Lisa Kim, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Workers here cannot be forced to join unions or pay dues, even if their workplace is unionized.
    — Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 6 May 2024
  • Plus, how Amazon workers in New York unionized, and more.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Their jobs were more likely to be unionized, and to provide pensions.
    — James Chappel, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Kroger and Albertsons are the rare unionized shops in retail.
    — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 10 Dec. 2024
  • For Asians, non-union male workers make $230 a week more than unionized workers.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
  • 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 pause freed workers from their 80-hour weeks, giving the unionized, the nonunionized, and even the unpaid time to organize.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2021
  • No doubt a union push will be a challenge at US banks, where fewer than 1% of workers are unionized.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Prior to Vail’s purchase of Park City in 2014, ski patrollers on the Canyons side of the resort were already unionized.
    — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Jan. 2022
  • This would be Amazon’s first unionized warehouse in the United States.
    — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • At least some of the new jobs, assembling electric trucks, are likely to be unionized.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Few of us think that any Starbucks location in the United States is unionized.
    — Aron Solomon, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The Big Three are the only carmakers that employ unionized workers in the United States.
    — J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Most of those unionized retail workers are in the grocery store sector.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Plus, around 26% of federal workers are unionized and some are covered by agreements that allow remote or hybrid work, Reuters reports.
    — Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 21 Jan. 2025

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