How to Use unionize in a Sentence

unionize

verb
Definition of unionizenext
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  • Workers are fighting for the right to unionize.
  • The Hyde Park store is the first on the South Side to unionize.
    — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2022
  • The victory marked the first car plant in the South to unionize with a vote since the 1940s.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 14 May 2024
  • In the 1950s over a third of all workers in the United States in the private sector were unionized.
    — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The Apple store in Maryland was the first to unionize for the company in 2022.
    — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 12 May 2024
  • So far, over 70 stores have voted to unionize, Forbes writes.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 23 June 2022
  • The push to unionize Starbucks is one of the most high-profile labor campaigns in decades.
    — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
  • And a group of flight attendants at Delta is seeking to unionize and ask for more.
    — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 10 May 2024
  • That store became one of the first in the country to unionize, and union staff walked out after his firing.
    — Xinyan Fu, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Biden has said his 2024 campaign staff will be unionized.
    — Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Against all odds, 19 workers in that store voted to unionize.
    — Roy Bahat, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024
  • At least 370 Starbucks stores have voted to unionize since then.
    — Dee-Ann Durbin, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
  • One of the latest to unionize is in Bellingham, Washington.
    — Renata Geraldo, Chicago Tribune, 26 Oct. 2022
  • More than 220 Starbucks stores have already voted to unionize in less than a year.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Since then, at least 366 U.S. Starbucks have voted to unionize.
    — TIME, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Chipotle is closing a Maine store that had been leading efforts to unionize the chain.
    — CBS News, 19 July 2022
  • When a Chipotle in Maine filed a petition to unionize in 2022, Chipotle closed it.
    — Dee-Ann Durbin, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2024
  • The votes were part of a national effort that has led to 374 stores unionizing over roughly two years.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Fourteen workers voted to unionize at the Starbucks in Clarksville, across the river from Louisville.
    — Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 29 July 2022
  • Two of the Seattle stores that are closing have voted to unionize, while one of the Portland stores has petitioned to hold a union vote.
    — Dee-Ann Durbin, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022
  • The move comes as Starbucks employees across the country have been voting to unionize.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 13 July 2022
  • The closures include some stores that have also voted to unionize.
    — Heather Haddon, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
  • An attempt to unionize Nissan in 2017 failed to win enough support from workers.
    — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
  • About six months later, the food-service workers had voted to unionize.
    — Billy Witz, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Workers at at Lordstown, Ohio plant voted to unionize last year.
    — Anna Katharine Ping, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • In March, the Long Beach Post laid off nine staffers after newsroom employees moved to unionize and went on strike to protest the impending cuts.
    — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
  • The government will hold a vote among the workers about whether to unionize, the regional director wrote.
    — Josh Eidelson, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Eight health care provider workforces have unionized since Roe v. Wade was overturned last summer.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2023
  • An iconic dance troupe known for their all-male striptease revue is unionizing.
    — James Factora, Them, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Earlier this week, the unionization drive reached a milestone, when a store in Washington became the 500th U.S. location to unionize.
    — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024

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