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unionization
[ yoon-yuh-nahy-zey-shuhn ]
noun
- the act or process of bringing workers into a labor union, an organization for dealing collectively with employers:
The decline of unionization has contributed to the rise of economic inequality in the United States over the past several decades.
- the process of subjecting an industry, profession, or region to the regulations of one or more labor unions:
He sees the dawning unionization of Silicon Valley as an ominous development.
Word History and Origins
Origin of unionization1
Example Sentences
All eyes are on Georgia, Google workers unionize, and an infant formula company fails—and tries again.
On the first work day of 2021, the New York Times broke the startling news that more than 200 Google engineers had unionized with the Communications Workers of America to form the Alphabet Workers Union.
The labor reform laws that passed in the same period will allow more companies to fire workers without government permission and make it harder for workers to unionize and for unions to go on strike.
When the pandemic struck, only about one in ten workers were unionized, a steep decline from the nearly one-third of workers who were members of a union in 1964, myself among them.
In recent years, unionizing newsrooms has given journalism-focused media companies a bit more say over how their workplaces are run.
We on my side say: unionization, massive public investments, a tax rate that kept the coffers full, a few other things.
Most of the anger about the Northwestern unionization decision has come from the college industry and with good reason.
Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee could decide the future of unionization in the South today.
Unionization takes away the necessary flexibility of both workers and employers, greatly slowing down the pace of innovation.
People are blaming unionization for many of the problems facing urban public schools.
They agree to consider every one of our demands, provided only we don't insist on the demand for unionization.
Did Mr. Kane promise to grant every demand, except only unionization?
It was a lost opportunity that unquestionably cost the unionization of the steel industry.
The company had refused to accede to the demands for unionization, even with a waiver of all other claims.
These locals, therefore, have been a great obstacle to the unionization of Negroes.
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