How to Use shop steward in a Sentence

shop steward

noun
  • Since becoming a shop steward, in 2014, Layne has spent his off hours on union tasks.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Then people start to communicate best practices, get in touch with the shop stewards and the flow of information is evolving.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2023
  • But Ryder is on the mend, says Christina Hansen, shop steward and carriage driver, who is handling his care.
    — Michael Roppolo, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Layne is now Local 100’s chief shop steward at the Manhattanville depot.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
  • And lately she’s been putting in volunteer time as a shop steward, which is essentially a union representative.
    — Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2021
  • The ragged labor agitator becomes the shop steward, then the union boss, and the propinquity of the bargaining table supplies the fellow with new best friends.
    — David Mamet, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
  • There’s no church to slot into as a deacon, no chance on the shop floor to rise as a foreman, no union in which to become a shop steward or officeholder, no big-city political machine that in this digital age needs anyone to go door to door.
    — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Barneond, who is from Guatemala, has worked in Las Vegas’ casino industry for nine years and is also a shop steward for the powerful Culinary Union in the state.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The shop steward also insisted that library management is resisting remote-service recommendations from staff that would allow more people to successfully work from home.
    — oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Political discussions regularly pop up on the floor, but last week felt different to Maricarmen Molina, a 26-year-old shop steward.
    — Julie Jargon, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2018
  • Ora McClendon, who was previously a senior shop steward at another workplace, said many employees who talk about joining a union do not realize how basic interaction with management would change.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Christina Hansen, shop steward for TWU Local 100, which represents carriage horse drivers, said Troy had pulled his carriage to the back of a line of carriages to drop off riders.
    — Allen Devlin, CBS News, 18 May 2026
  • Joe Spica, a bellman at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and a Culinary Workers Union shop steward, said visitor totals may not have collapsed, but spending has.
    — Rajesh Kumar Singh, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Beckemeyer, the shop steward who serves as a union representative, said Fred Meyer offered employees KN95 masks by request to help with the smoke but still required them to work long hours and meet their usual hourly quotas.
    — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 20 May 2021
  • Union shop stewards inside SoFi Stadium near Los Angeles are handing out buttons which read ‘Kick ICE Out’ for workers to wear at the venue hosting FIFA’s World Cup match between the United States and Paraguay on Friday night.
    — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 12 June 2026

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