How to Use unionism in a Sentence

unionism

noun
  • Then there is the excessive nostalgia for the heyday of trade unionism.
    — Matthew Bishop, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2016
  • Which brings us to last month’s Supreme Court decision on public-sector unionism.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 6 July 2018
  • Though unionism has been in decline for decades, the public sector has remained a stronghold of organised labour.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The days of pure and simple bread-and-butter unionism in UTLA are over.
    — Howard Blumestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Thus, trade unionism has less widespread resonance among Americans than in our recent past.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The culture worker strikes also betoken something of a return to an earlier time of unionism.
    — Alissa Quart, The New Republic, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The second important problem is the one involved in the internal dispute over the type of labor unionism to be fostered in this country.
    — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Looking at some contemporary controversies from this angle of unionism reveals a few things.
    — Fred Bauer, National Review, 28 Aug. 2019
  • My own research shows that the effects of unionism depend on the relationship forged in the workplace between labor and management.
    — Harry C. Katz, Fortune, 2 May 2022
  • Support for Scottish independence and unionism remains split down the middle.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
  • Their rank-and-file model of unionism—by us, for us—demanded hours of work outside of work, and everyone at the table admitted to exhaustion.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The employees ultimately backed down, rejecting the notion of unionism for what seemed in part to be cultural reasons.
    — New York Times, 13 June 2021
  • Repealing right-to-work in Michigan—a cradle of American unionism—could be just the jolt the labor movement needs.
    — Steven Greenhouse, The New Republic, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Issues of great importance to labor and to the nation are centered in the current dispute between industrial and craft unionism.
    — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Though unionist when founded, the Alliance Party has become neutral on unionism, and now appeals to Catholic voters too.
    — Shafi Musaddique, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2022
  • The Janus back story illustrates the corrupting influence of public-sector unionism.
    — James Taranto, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
  • This kind of campus-wide organizing reflects the growing shift toward rank-and-file unionism within the #RedforEd movement.
    — Kim Kelly, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Several members were drawn to trade unionism, involving themselves, for instance, in the garment workers strike of 1909.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
  • Republican stances on economic issues — anti-unionism and opposition to public welfare — pitted them against the poor.
    — Richard A. Gallun, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2020
  • In other environments, such as a Detroit Three auto plant with thousands of employees, unionism is ingrained in the culture itself.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Britain’s monarchy would need to come up with a very good reason for empire unionism, which today may be a letter even more dead in UK politics than outright republicanism.
    — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The enemy is the violence itself, generated by the feedback loop of Nationalism and unionism.
    — Joseph Patrick Kelly, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Such a result would further destabilize and radicalize unionism, making the resurrection of power-sharing even harder.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The West Virginia teachers found ways to organize and act outside the usual parameters of traditional unionism.
    — Jess Bidgood and Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The murder mystery becomes entangled, at times awkwardly, with larger social issues like unionism, anarchism and the women’s suffrage movement.
    — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 4 May 2018
  • Despite this lavish outlay, both candidates have presented themselves as friends of the working class, acknowledging Montana’s past and present as a relative bastion of unionism.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2020
  • So the prospect for a serious crackdown on private tyranny and a new surge of unionism will depend, as in earlier eras, on the emergence of mass movements that organize for those ends and consistent electoral triumphs by a party that favors them.
    — Michael Kazin, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
  • In the nineteen-sixties and seventies, the leading political party in Italy was the Communist Party, and its causes went far beyond trade unionism, which was a given.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2020
  • This could both remove understandable employer objections to the current all-or-nothing nature of American unionism and provide unions themselves with other ways to advocate for their members.
    — Eli Lehrer, National Review, 25 July 2019
  • As a result, California textbooks are more likely to celebrate unionism, critique the concentration of wealth and focus on how industry pollutes the environment.
    — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2020

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