How to Use shop steward in a Sentence

shop steward

noun

• Since becoming a shop steward, in 2014, Layne has spent his off hours on union tasks.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
• Well, one thing is the on-set shop steward program that was just initiated.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2022
• But Ryder is on the mend, says Christina Hansen, shop steward and carriage driver, who is handling his care.
  — Michael Roppolo, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2022
• Layne is now Local 100’s chief shop steward at the Manhattanville depot.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
• The ragged labor agitator becomes the shop steward, then the union boss, and the propinquity of the bargaining table supplies the fellow with new best friends.
  — David Mamet, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
• And lately she’s been putting in volunteer time as a shop steward, which is essentially a union representative.
  — Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2021
• There’s no church to slot into as a deacon, no chance on the shop floor to rise as a foreman, no union in which to become a shop steward or officeholder, no big-city political machine that in this digital age needs anyone to go door to door.
  — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2020
• Beckemeyer, the shop steward who serves as a union representative, said Fred Meyer offered employees KN95 masks by request to help with the smoke but still required them to work long hours and meet their usual hourly quotas.
  — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 20 May 2021
• Ismaham Ali, 29, a shop steward at Amazon who has been cleaning the company’s offices for the past four years, said her crew was given an unfamiliar, high-powered disinfectant to use.
  — John Eligon, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
• Political discussions regularly pop up on the floor, but last week felt different to Maricarmen Molina, a 26-year-old shop steward.
  — Julie Jargon, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2018
• In the last few years, the commission investigated and helped to prosecute several union officials, shop stewards and foremen for a conspiracy to extort their own union members on behalf of the Genovese organized crime family, the complaint stated.
  — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
• Ora McClendon, who was previously a senior shop steward at another workplace, said many employees who talk about joining a union do not realize how basic interaction with management would change.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 4 Mar. 2021
• The shop steward also insisted that library management is resisting remote-service recommendations from staff that would allow more people to successfully work from home.
  — oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024