How to Use union shop in a Sentence

union shop

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  • One is a union shop that has long produced the Plain Dealer.
    — Meg Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • In a union shop, union nonmembers are covered by the same contract as union members and have the same rights.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023
  • One of the bills would require local governments to grant time off to union shop stewards.
    — Adam Ashton, sacbee, 4 June 2018
  • The first-hand lessons learned, including about union shops, was far more important than even that low wage.
    — WSJ, 26 July 2017
  • About three-quarters of the contracts have gone to union shops, Wellesley officials said.
    — Deirdre Fernandes, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • As a union shop steward, Guerdan had spent many extremely cold days this winter marching in the picket line.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023
  • One bill, would force local governments to give time off to union shop stewards, though the unions would have to reimburse government agencies for the time off.
    — Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News, 5 June 2018
  • Local union shops would still have to vote on the deal before anything passes, but a tentative agreement could come as soon as Wednesday.
    — cleveland, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Armed with a thick Boston accent and a direct and brusque nature, Baker is a former union shop steward known as a rhetorical pugilist.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The university’s recent proposal did not address the union shop clause.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2021
  • For a long time the prototypical union shop hasn’t been a private steel plant but a public school, yet the unionized share of government employees also fell.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Nine of those papers were union shops, according to reporting from NewsReview.
    — Taylor Telford, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Coalfield Development is a union shop, and our union partners are helping design our training programs.
    — Michael Zakaras, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • In February the city passed a San Francisco-like ordinance to force employers to offer a week of paid sick leave annually—with an exemption, of course, for union shops.
    — John Daniel Davidson, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
  • Or why a party that once ruled Arkansas for the better part of 150 years now has to settle for holding its quarterly committee meetings at an aging union shop on the outskirts of Little Rock.
    — Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 11 Dec. 2022
  • When Republicans in the legislature proposed a right-to-work bill, which would allow workers in union shops to opt out of paying dues, Snyder initially opposed it.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • Nate Castro, a postal staffer and union shop steward in Florida with more than three decades of experience, said the rationale behind DeJoy's policy changes has been unclear.
    — Arkansas Online, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Nate Castro, a postal staffer and union shop steward in Florida with more than three decades of experience, said the rationale behind DeJoy’s policy changes has been unclear.
    — Lisa Mascaro and Matthew Daly, chicagotribune.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Critics and admirers alike said his advocacy was largely responsible for the fact that Kentucky — unlike other Southern states — did not have a right-to-work law, which allows employees to work in union shops without joining a union.
    — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama appeared to reject unionization, a major win for the e-commerce giant, which waged a high-profile battle to prevent the facility from turning into its first union shop on U.S. soil.
    — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2021
  • What’s been widely reported about the recent wave of unionization were the immediate, material gains won by insurgent union shops—contracts with salary floors, generous severance packages, paid family leave.
    — Clio Chang, The New Republic, 11 July 2019

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