How to Use unionize in a Sentence

unionize

verb
  • Workers are fighting for the right to unionize.
  • The Hyde Park store is the first on the South Side to unionize.
    Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2022
  • And the past year has shown that the time has come to unionize.
    Reshma Saujani, CNN, 4 Sep. 2021
  • The victory marked the first car plant in the South to unionize with a vote since the 1940s.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 14 May 2024
  • In order to unionize, workers might need a change in the law.
    Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Patrollers will vote on whether to unionize on Jan. 8 and Jan. 11.
    John Meyer, The Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2024
  • 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 Apple store in Maryland was the first to unionize for the company in 2022.
    Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 12 May 2024
  • So far, over 70 stores have voted to unionize, Forbes writes.
    Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 23 June 2022
  • The push to unionize Starbucks is one of the most high-profile labor campaigns in decades.
    Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
  • How much was the push to unionize a reaction to the pandemic?
    James Barron, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
  • And a group of flight attendants at Delta is seeking to unionize and ask for more.
    Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 10 May 2024
  • That store became one of the first in the country to unionize, and union staff walked out after his firing.
    Xinyan Fu, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • More than 220 Starbucks stores have already voted to unionize in less than a year.
    Sarah Todd, Quartz, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Since then, at least 366 U.S. Starbucks have voted to unionize.
    TIME, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Chipotle is closing a Maine store that had been leading efforts to unionize the chain.
    CBS News, 19 July 2022
  • Though more ski patrols have unionized in recent years, no ski resort has seen a strike like this in decades.
    Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 7 Jan. 2025
  • When a Chipotle in Maine filed a petition to unionize in 2022, Chipotle closed it.
    Dee-Ann Durbin, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, in a town about 15 miles outside of Seattle, Rolf said there was a push to unionize workers at the airport.
    Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2021
  • For the first time in Amazon’s 27-year history, a group of U.S.-based workers have voted to unionize.
    NBC News, 1 Apr. 2022
  • When workers there went on strike for weeks in an effort to unionize, Bougher and Balg decided to leave and start their own shop.
    Carson Gerber, chicagotribune.com, 24 Oct. 2021
  • One of the nation's largest union is aiming to unionize Amazon workers.
    Joseph Pisani, Star Tribune, 24 June 2021
  • Fourteen workers voted to unionize at the Starbucks in Clarksville, across the river from Louisville.
    Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 29 July 2022
  • Two of the Seattle stores that are closing have voted to unionize, while one of the Portland stores has petitioned to hold a union vote.
    Dee-Ann Durbin, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022
  • While the union effort was already in an advanced stage by the time Catch and Kill was released, unionizing workers emphasized its reporting during their drive.
    Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025

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