How to Use nonunion in a Sentence

nonunion

adjective

• It's a nonunion construction firm.
• They are cutting costs by using nonunion labor.
• Union leaders fear that Kroger will close or spin off the unionized stores ahead of the nonunion stores.
  — Joe Nocera, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2022
• But both sides still can't agree to how much work can be carried out by nonunion firms.
  — Steve Vockrodt and Bill Turque, kansascity, 21 June 2018
• The Times went on to report that they were replaced with nonunion crew members.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 26 Oct. 2021
• What may take months or years for a union member may take hours for a nonunion worker.
  — F. Vincent Vernuccio, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2022
• Krebs said the gap between unionized and nonunion plants is shrinking.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 15 June 2019
• Hormel was threatened by new rivals with nonunion plants and far lower wages.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
• A year after the start of the strike, nonunion coal trucks drove through a union blockade, damaging the cars of striking miners.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 8 May 2018
• The few soaps that remain in existence are starting to get nonunion writers to write scripts.
  — Pulling Stunts, Vulture, 31 July 2023
• What are the true wage differences between union and nonunion solar jobs?
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• Union crew members were ordered to leave the set and were swiftly replaced by nonunion crew members.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
• After the camera crew walked, nonunion replacements were brought in.
  — Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• The union, the Hotel Trades Council, has long pushed to limit the construction of new hotels, which are often nonunion.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
• The details could change in the face of opposition from automakers with nonunion U.S. plants.
  — New York Times, 22 Sep. 2021
• The union is concerned that many of the jobs being created in E.V. plants are nonunion jobs, some of which pay wages well below union levels.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Wiedefeld said the layoffs are likely to include union and nonunion workers.
  — Justin George, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2020
• Toyota has lobbied against the incentive; its U.S. plants are nonunion.
  — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 11 Nov. 2021
• The court appeared to be on the verge of repealing the ruling two years ago in a case brought by nonunion teachers in California.
  — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
• Since the lockout, the work of preparing sets for the coming season has gone to nonunion shops elsewhere in this country and overseas.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2021
• The union crew was replaced by nonunion workers, and the production resumed after lunch.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2021
• There are also a lot of nonunion background jobs that union members are barred from accepting.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2021
• Trump spoke to workers at a nonunion auto-parts supplier.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• So a nonunion nurse may be covered by a nurse’s union contract at the same hospital, for example.
  — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
• Frymer and Grumbach found that white union members vote eight to 14 percentage points more for Democrats than do white nonunion members.
  — Steven Greenhouse, The New Republic, 6 May 2022
• Walter Reuther called a strike against Kohler that ended up lasting six years, and Kohler hired nonunion workers who were beaten by union thugs.
  — The Editors, National Review, 18 Sep. 2023
• After The Courant made months of inquiries to city leaders about the payments, Bronin last week proposed cracking down on nonunion payouts.
  — Jenna Carlesso, Courant Community, 8 May 2017
• Rosenthal hopes to get funding to reach out to another three million nonunion voters in the coming months.
  — Steven Greenhouse, The New Republic, 6 May 2022
• New members could flip the board’s ideology — from one that wants to rein in charter schools to one that supports these independent and mostly nonunion public schools.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• In a world of scarce resources and priorities, however, nonunion workers bear the costs of current industrial and trade policies.
  — Desirée Leclercq, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Sep 2024