How to Use unionize in a Sentence

unionize

verb
  • Workers are fighting for the right to unionize.
  • And the past year has shown that the time has come to unionize.
    — Reshma Saujani, CNN, 4 Sep. 2021
  • In order to unionize, workers might need a change in the law.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Still, the video may be enough to push other workers to want to unionize.
    — Joseph Pisani, ajc, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Each warehouse that wants to unionize would have to go through a similar process.
    — CBS News, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Most charter school teachers are not unionized.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 16 June 2026
  • So far, over 70 stores have voted to unionize, Forbes writes.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 23 June 2022
  • Against all odds, 19 workers in that store voted to unionize.
    — Roy Bahat, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Then there’s the question of whether athletes who could unionize would, in fact, unionize.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Though more ski patrols have unionized in recent years, no ski resort has seen a strike like this in decades.
    — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The Hyde Park store is the first on the South Side to unionize.
    — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2022
  • How much was the push to unionize a reaction to the pandemic?
    — James Barron, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
  • And a group of flight attendants at Delta is seeking to unionize and ask for more.
    — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 10 May 2024
  • Her journey in trying to unionize is a contrast to Arj, who has lost all hope.
    — EW.com, 23 July 2025
  • Over the past five years, there have been multiple efforts to unionize tech workers.
    — Aparna Rae, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • His campaign staff has become the first in Virginia to unionize.
    — Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2021
  • That store became one of the first in the country to unionize, and union staff walked out after his firing.
    — Xinyan Fu, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The closures include some stores that have also voted to unionize.
    — Heather Haddon, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Both locations were not unionized.
    — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Will the players unionize and bargain for a larger piece of the economic pie?
    — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Union leaders said that this week’s strike is the first since nurses unionized in 1996.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2025
  • This is not the first time staff at Denver Health has attempted to unionize.
    — Conrad Swanson, The Denver Post, 5 May 2020
  • Chipotle is closing a Maine store that had been leading efforts to unionize the chain.
    — CBS News, 19 July 2022
  • That’s because Tesla plants aren’t unionized.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
  • At least 370 Starbucks stores have voted to unionize since then.
    — Dee-Ann Durbin, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The push to unionize Starbucks is one of the most high-profile labor campaigns in decades.
    — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The Writers Guild East has been unionized for 20 years.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 6 Mar. 2026
  • One of the nation's largest union is aiming to unionize Amazon workers.
    — Joseph Pisani, Star Tribune, 24 June 2021
  • This push to unionize, for example, and who’s a gig worker, who’s an employee.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Last year, Foodora workers in Ontario won the rights to unionize.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 2 June 2021

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