How to Use anti-union in a Sentence

anti-union

adjective
  • Some will say these reforms are anti-union.
    — Anastasios Kamoutsas, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Police and fire unions have been carved out of anti-union laws for decades.
    — Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The men who flocked to spring training sites were called scabs, cast as anti-union phonies.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The fruits of the collective agreement are a sign that the anti-union era sparked more than 40 years ago is over.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2023
  • One of my coworkers was telling me that one of the regional ladies was reading from a script, their first anti-union screed.
    — Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
  • These days, White wears an anti-union sticker on his shirt and carries extras to hand out to whoever wants one.
    — Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
  • His anti-union stance caused city employees to work without new contracts or raises for several years.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Starbucks’s anti-union campaign has been most intense in Buffalo, a working-class city where the union drive began.
    — Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2023
  • These anti-union ads are an attempt to combat the new legislation and blunt recent organizing wins.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Among other provisions, the act would override state right-to-work laws, racist and anti-union statutes that are common in southeastern and heartland states.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Colorado unions and the state legislature are pushing for the state to stand with workers by repealing this anti-union artifact.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The plants have television monitors in break rooms and cafeterias that run pro-company and anti-union messaging.
    — Stephen J. Silvia, The Conversation, 21 May 2024
  • That would be a blessing for Elon Musk and his historically anti-union Tesla.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023
  • This is the Deep South, after all, where anti-union attitudes are enshrined in state constitutions.
    — Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 6 May 2024
  • Tesla will have to skip trash day in Sweden as the country’s labor groups continue to protest the company’s anti-union policies.
    — Umar Shakir, The Verge, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Michigan recently became the first state in more than half a century to restore power to workers by repealing its anti-union right-to-work law.
    — Raina Lipsitz, The New Republic, 1 May 2023
  • Amazon has an anti-safety, anti-union track record Amazon’s workplace safety has come under scrutiny in the past.
    — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2023
  • In the filings, the company was further accused of forcing workers to attend anti-union meetings that were set up to discourage them from joining the union.
    — Marco Marcelline, PCMAG, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The memes range from harping on Musk’s outspoken anti-union rhetoric amid the historic Detroit auto workers’ strike to more, well, crude content.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Then 16 sticks of dynamite exploded at the anti-union newspaper, and people began dying.
    — Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
  • Whether that sentiment translates into action remains to be seen, but the recent firings suggest that Starbucks is sticking with its anti-union stance.
    — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Starbucks shareholders want more information about the company's anti-union efforts Starbucks and the union have yet to sign a contract.
    — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Instead of following the same playbook of anti-union practices, Wells Fargo needs to work with us to find solutions and better serve our customers.
    — Debbie Warren, Fortune, 10 July 2023
  • The initiatives have been promoted by the Freedom Foundation, an anti-union national think tank.
    — Jeffrey S. Solochek, Miami Herald, 1 May 2026
  • In recent weeks, a number of Alabama politicians have spoken out against the vote, concerned that their state's pro-business, anti-union reputation could take a hit.
    — Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 13 May 2024
  • Amazon responded to the Garner union drive with a barrage of anti-union messages in the warehouse, on a website, and sent through its AtoZ app to employees.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Schultz's testimony comes after Starbucks employees walked out of more than 100 stores last week to protest the company's anti-union efforts.
    — Julius Lasin, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
  • An anti-union group put up a billboards outside the convention calling O'Brien two-faced for engaging with Republicans.
    — Sophia Cai, Axios, 15 July 2024
  • But the company has faced widespread scrutiny from employees, lawmakers and federal agencies over its labor practices and has been accused of anti-union tactics.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
  • But unlike at Volkswagen, Mercedes workers say they have been barraged at work with anti-union videos highlighting the failures of unions elsewhere and forced to join closed-door meetings with lawyers.
    — Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 13 May 2024

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