9 example sentences using union.
Union used in a sentence
Union in a sentence as a noun
These aren't people who need a union and a minimum wage law to protect their interests.
A lot of the back-channel reference checking that goes on in the Valley is to avoid taking on a potential unionist.
Back in the mid-20th century, trucking was one of the most heavily unionized industries, via the IBT primarily.
However, in the 80s and 90s, various Republican and Democratic administrations collaborated with trucking companies to make war on the unions.
\n * negotiation of terms that are embarrassing for an individual to\n formally address, such as severance, health accommodations\n and workplace privacy.\n\nThese are all things that we can have, and that we deserve, that bring none of the negative side effects associated with unions.
Union in a sentence as an adjective
Originally truckers were employed directly by the companies, but eventually those companies realized they could react to unionization by outsourcing truckers, either into private shell companies that closed down as soon as unionization hit or by hiring truckers as contractors.
I think the element you are missing is that the Greek government spending is very inefficient; they're not investing in some kind of economy-growing infrastructure revolution, they're spending money on totally unreasonable union contracts and extraordinarily early retirement for large classes of pensioners.
When I was working for a contractor installing and fixing servers at various plants and facilities, the only union workers who actively appeared to be doing their jobs were the union work rules compliance guys, who hovered over us to see if there was any possible way to file a grievance over violations of the "work rules".
They are also actively trying to keep their employees from unionizing.\nIf you consider the current wages "decent" is up to your point of view, but the union and I'd guess most of the affected workers disagree.> The fact that most of the workers are not on strike proves that they're satisfied with their jobsThis proves nothing, in particular not job satisfaction, and is actually also not how things work in Germany and therefore just wrong.\nFirst a union will usually selectively shut down just a few facilities instead of all at once.
Union definitions
an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job"
See also: brotherhood
the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War); "he has visited every state in the Union"; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"; "the North's superior resources turned the scale"
the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"
See also: coupling mating pairing conjugation
the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union"
See also: unification
the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
See also: conglutination
a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; "the Soviet Union"
a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B"
See also: join
the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"
a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
the act of making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"
See also: unification uniting conjugation jointure
being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War; "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman"
of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract"