How to Use unionization in a Sentence

unionization

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  • But Texas has one of the lowest rates of unionization in the country.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 30 June 2023
  • But this won't be the end of Amazon's unionization woes.
    — Nathaniel Mott, PCMAG, 3 Apr. 2022
  • The wage hike comes as Starbucks fends off a unionization effort in New York.
    — Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The union has made more direct efforts to the unionization process this summer.
    — Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The result of that battle could help shape the future of unionization at the company.
    — WIRED, 13 June 2023
  • There will probably be pushback from the school to the idea of unionization, so a hearing will take place.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The chain has also been fighting off a wave of unionization efforts.
    — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The same words spoken on a podcast REI made to combat unionization efforts lack the same oomph.
    — Harry Cheadle, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The closure comes amid a broader unionization push across the country.
    — CBS News, 19 July 2022
  • The one holdout is an employee who is leaving soon and didn’t want to get wrapped up in the unionization process, Grob added.
    — Daedan Olander, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 May 2022
  • What’s the impact of a minor-league baseball unionization vote?
    — Ronald Blum, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Over the past year and a half, Starbucks has been waging a bitter fight against unionization efforts.
    — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Their vote comes in a time of unionization efforts from coffee shop employees around the city.
    — The Courier-Journal, 9 Sep. 2022
  • These factors have put the idea of unionization into many people’s minds.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • This isn't the first coffee shop to seek unionization in Wisconsin.
    — Drake Bentley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The games industry has seen a wave of unionization efforts in recent years.
    — Shannon Liao, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Staff at more stores in the state are expected to go public with unionization efforts in the coming months.
    — Mathew J Schumer, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2024
  • At least a half dozen more locations are at less-advanced stages in the unionization process, these people say.
    — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The white whale of flight attendant unionization efforts is Delta Air Lines.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 27 July 2024
  • The workers said this had diluted support for unionization at the store.
    — Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The vote showed that most of the employees supported unionization, with seven out of nine voting in favor of the cause.
    — Jordan Parker, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Aug. 2022
  • And though companies that reject unionization may see their stock price climb, the hype is often short-lived.
    — Q.ai - Make Genius Money Moves, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
  • To top it off, Amazon has had to deal with a rising wave of unionization efforts around the world under Jassy’s leadership.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2023
  • No amount of media hype can change the facts: Private-sector unionization is at 6 percent.
    — The Editors, National Review, 2 Sep. 2024
  • The union lost a unionization election last month at Mercedes plants in Alabama, but has now turned its attention to a Hyundai plant in the same state.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
  • The laws are widely opposed by unions in part because studies have shown that states with right-to-work laws have lower unionization rates.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The store has 26 workers, Grob said, of which 25 have signed union cards indicating their support to vote for unionization.
    — Daedan Olander, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 May 2022
  • Herrick and her colleagues see unionization as a way to make what was once an award-winning library a winner again.
    — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Could a unionization effort sap some of the drama that keeps people watching if Housewives — known for backstabbing and bad-mouthing one another — had to band together to organize?
    — Emma Bowman, NPR, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Walsh said that unionization is not the goal of the proposition and that the carve-out was made because unionized workforces have their own employment negotiations regulated by the National Labor Relations Board.
    — Jessica Boehm, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024

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