How to Use union card in a Sentence
union card
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Sharkey said there are 301 staffers who have not signed CTU union cards.
—Patrick M. O'Connell, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2018
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How many of them are going to be willing to put their lifelong dreams on the line for a union card?
—Mitchell Nathanson, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2022
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The group hopes that USC’s film school will see the logic in their union drive, or at least be swayed by the number of the group that has signed union cards.
—Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Nov. 2023
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Getting a certain percentage of workers to sign a union card is kind of like a Kickstarter project.
—Steven Levy, Wired, 29 May 2020
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Hinds’ staff of three recently signed union cards to join Teamsters Local 17.
—Andrew Kenney, The Denver Post, 6 Aug. 2019
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And then aid them as a network of graduates of that program to then get jobs, get their union cards, move into the industry, et cetera.
—Recode Staff, Recode, 30 May 2018
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Representatives for the union drive say that a majority of the newsroom has signed union cards in support of the effort.
—Benjamin Mullin, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2017
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The union said Monday that more than 90% of eligible staffers have signed union cards, indicating their support for the union.
—Austen Hufford, WSJ, 9 July 2018
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In a phone interview last week, Martínez says that musical not only got him his Equity union card but his green card.
—Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 23 Sep. 2021
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Activists must get at least 30 percent of workers to sign union cards and force a vote overseen by the National Labor Relations Board.
—Jack Ewing, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
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Many wore masks, sometimes slipping off, as workers reached over one another to hand a foreman their union card to get selected onto a crew for the night.
—New York Times, 12 Dec. 2020
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Within a week, Rizzo had persuaded all of the hourly workers at her store to sign union cards, expressing support for an election.
—Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2023
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For instance, workers in an office setting, at least pre-pandemic, might have learned about the union by running into a co-worker who could then give them a union card to sign.
—Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2021
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Then there’s the worry that this would set a precedent, allowing that future President Warren to codify, say, union card check.
—Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2018
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His father wasn’t a factory worker with a union card but a somewhat itinerant shoe store salesman who was an alcoholic.
—Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2018
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He’s also accused of using the union card to pay more than $8,000 for personal meals, unrelated to union business, with his girlfriend and relatives.
—Shelley Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
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The experience earned him his theater union card, and by extension, ultimately his role in Hamilton.
—Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 7 June 2021
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That same month, Here Lies Love announced a rush ticket policy aimed at supporting labor union members, with $39 rush tickets available all day the day of the performance to those carrying a valid union card.
—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2023
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The co-worker who finally tells the boss to take her lousy job and shove it; the immigrant who quietly risks deportation to sign a union card; the protester who, enraged at another police killing, throws a brick.
—John Patrick Leary, The New Republic, 26 Nov. 2021
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According to the union, the staffers initially asked for voluntary recognition from management after a number signed union cards, a request that was denied.
—Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2023
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Democrats could have increased the penalties for violating labor law, enabled unions to circumvent the election process if a majority of workers signed union cards (a.k.a.
—Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 26 Jan. 2018
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As of Thursday, organizers say, 1,300 students had signed union cards signaling their support.
—oregonlive, 18 Feb. 2023
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Meeting on lunch breaks at Eli’s Essentials, an upscale cafe nearby where a peanut butter and jelly sandwich costs $7.95 (most brought their own food), the workers gathered with a labor organizer and signed union cards.
—New York Times, 22 July 2019
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In the fall of 2022, organizers collected more than two thousand union cards, and, unlike in years past, Yale administrators and faculty mostly left the students alone.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
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This process—of meeting in secret, signing union cards, winning an election, and eventually bargaining for a contract—is time-intensive and costly, and feels, to the workers involved, like a spiky gauntlet.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2023
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The effort is in its early stages, with organizers having only just begun circulating union cards to the cast members this week, according to Actors' Equity.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2024
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If successful, this legislation would allow workers to form a union just by getting a majority signed up on union cards, rather than requiring them to go through an extended election process that employers can often swing their way.
—Livia Gershon, Longreads, 28 June 2018
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