How to Use unionize in a Sentence

unionize

verb

• Workers are fighting for the right to unionize.
• 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 push to unionize Starbucks is one of the most high-profile labor campaigns in decades.
  — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Since then, at least 366 U.S. Starbucks have voted to unionize.
  — TIME, 19 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Since 2021, Starbucks workers at hundreds of stores across the country have voted to unionize.
  — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• But Starbucks doesn’t support unionization and has yet to reach a labor agreement with any of the stores that have voted to unionize.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2023
• The bank employees join others in a push to unionize in places that have not had a strong presence of organized labor.
  — Michelle Chapman, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2023
• That decision could now be overturned if Uber drivers try to unionize again.
  — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
• In the past month, Disney and Marvel visual effects workers voted to unionize.
  — TIME, 6 Oct. 2023
• And any effect of athletes unionizing would likely be felt first in the all-private Ivy League conference.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2024
• Whether this will bear fruit for Bethenny Frankel and her attempt to unionize reality TV is yet to be determined.
  — Vulture, 28 Aug. 2023
• There is this current push for reality stars to unionize and speak out against poor conditions on sets.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2023
• Since late last year, more than 230 U.S. Starbucks stores have voted to unionize, which Starbucks opposes.
  — Fox News, 12 Sep. 2022
• The first Starbucks location voted to unionize in December of last year.
  — Colin Lodewick, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2022
• Over the past year, staffers have been standing up for better treatment in Congress and have started unionizing their offices for the first time in U.S. history.
  — Sarah Drory, ELLE, 26 May 2023
• Maggie Carter, from Knoxville, Tennessee, explained that she had been threatened for helping to unionize her store.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2023
• There are countless questions surrounding what unionizing reality TV would look like — in no small part because of the sheer breadth of the genre.
  — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Aug. 2023
• The petition comes after Holvey, who has served in the state legislature for nearly 20 years, tabled a bill that would have allowed cannabis workers to unionize.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 26 Aug. 2023
• Kiel also said staffers have looked on as the rest of the media industry has endured enormous upheaval and dozens media outlets across the country have unionized.
  — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 21 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024