How to Use autoworker in a Sentence

autoworker

noun
  • This made more Southern autoworkers want to join the union.
    Stephen J. Silvia, The Conversation, 21 May 2024
  • Laid-off autoworkers want to tell a story of hope, too.
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 19 May 2017
  • But whether the thousands of autoworkers in Greater Cleveland will strike is still not clear.
    Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The new union got the minimum increased to about $14 per day, but that's still less than a U.S. autoworker earns in an hour.
    Mark Stevenson, ajc, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The autoworkers at Toledo are some of the members who have been on strike the longest -- since the earliest hours of Sept. 15.
    Breana Noble The Detroit News (tns), Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The last autoworkers strike was also against GM, and lasted three days.
    Brenna Cammeron, CNN, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Autoworkers used to have a lot of great-paying jobs building cars.
    Sarah Jones, New Republic, 22 June 2017
  • But repos soared on bad news, such as with the loss of 1,500 autoworker jobs in Lordstown, Ohio, announced this year.
    Todd C. Frankel, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2018
  • Nearly 5,000 autoworkers have been laid off since the strike began last month.
    Rebecca Angelo, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Of course, many autoworkers gladly drive the house brand out of loyalty.
    Popular Mechanics, 4 July 2017
  • An autoworker in Michigan no longer had to foot the bill for a hedge fund manager in New Jersey to write off his state tax bill.
    Daniel Bunn, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Kennedy gave his last year from a tech school that trains autoworkers, while ex-Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear went to a diner in coal country to make his pitch.
    Tamar Hallerman, The Seattle Times, 5 Feb. 2019
  • During a heat wave, hundreds of autoworkers died in plants in Michigan.
    Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • And Hawley joined strike lines with autoworkers and Teamsters.
    Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
  • The third- and second-generation autoworkers met on the job and got married in 2019.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 28 Feb. 2024
  • In the United States, the striking autoworkers have been pushing for a wage increase of 36 percent over a new four-year contract.
    Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The autoworkers were intent on getting a bigger share of the gains the company has made since its bankruptcy a decade ago.
    Erin Kirkland, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2019
  • His visit to Michigan during the UAW strike featured a rally with autoworkers at a nonunion shop.
    Tyler Pager, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The importance of autoworkers in this election cycle has been on display for some time.
    Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 19 July 2024
  • Many striking autoworkers are already back on the job and will be reflected in next month’s data.
    Christine Romans, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The big contract gains are spilling over to benefit non-unionized autoworkers, too.
    Wali Khan, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
  • But pay is not the only issue for many autoworkers in Alabama.
    Jack Ewing, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • The General Motors strike could affect far more than the autoworkers and the company.
    Alex Connor, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Speaking of progress, autoworkers at General Motors approved a deal to end their 40-day strike and the first workers were back on the job this weekend.
    Charlotte Cowles, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2019
  • The strike has been strategic and targeted, and the majority of unionized autoworkers remain on the job.
    Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The only criteria is the autoworker must either live in Detroit or work in Detroit.
    Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2021
  • But, unlike with rail and airline workers, the president doesn't have the authority to order autoworkers to stay on the job.
    Tom Krisher and David Koenig The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The autoworkers union has long had its sights on other carmakers beyond Detroit's Big Three, and those companies are aware of that fact.
    Marley Jay, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Trump had no campaign events scheduled Monday, but his campaign hosted a news briefing with autoworkers supporting Trump.
    Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Donald Trump, whose administration abandoned the nuclear agreement with Iran, has even claimed—perhaps bizarrely—that nuclear war poses the biggest threat to American autoworkers.
    Michael Sheldrick, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024

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