How to Use nonunion in a Sentence

nonunion

adjective
  • It's a nonunion construction firm.
  • They are cutting costs by using nonunion labor.
  • Union leaders fear that Kroger will close or spin off the unionized stores ahead of the nonunion stores.
    Joe Nocera, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2022
  • But both sides still can't agree to how much work can be carried out by nonunion firms.
    Steve Vockrodt and Bill Turque, kansascity, 21 June 2018
  • The Times went on to report that they were replaced with nonunion crew members.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 26 Oct. 2021
  • What may take months or years for a union member may take hours for a nonunion worker.
    F. Vincent Vernuccio, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Krebs said the gap between unionized and nonunion plants is shrinking.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 15 June 2019
  • Hormel was threatened by new rivals with nonunion plants and far lower wages.
    James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
  • A year after the start of the strike, nonunion coal trucks drove through a union blockade, damaging the cars of striking miners.
    Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 8 May 2018
  • The few soaps that remain in existence are starting to get nonunion writers to write scripts.
    Pulling Stunts, Vulture, 31 July 2023
  • What are the true wage differences between union and nonunion solar jobs?
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Union crew members were ordered to leave the set and were swiftly replaced by nonunion crew members.
    Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
  • After the camera crew walked, nonunion replacements were brought in.
    Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The union, the Hotel Trades Council, has long pushed to limit the construction of new hotels, which are often nonunion.
    New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The details could change in the face of opposition from automakers with nonunion U.S. plants.
    New York Times, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The union is concerned that many of the jobs being created in E.V. plants are nonunion jobs, some of which pay wages well below union levels.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Wiedefeld said the layoffs are likely to include union and nonunion workers.
    Justin George, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Toyota has lobbied against the incentive; its U.S. plants are nonunion.
    Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The court appeared to be on the verge of repealing the ruling two years ago in a case brought by nonunion teachers in California.
    Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Since the lockout, the work of preparing sets for the coming season has gone to nonunion shops elsewhere in this country and overseas.
    New York Times, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The union crew was replaced by nonunion workers, and the production resumed after lunch.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2021
  • There are also a lot of nonunion background jobs that union members are barred from accepting.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Trump spoke to workers at a nonunion auto-parts supplier.
    Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • So a nonunion nurse may be covered by a nurse’s union contract at the same hospital, for example.
    Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
  • Frymer and Grumbach found that white union members vote eight to 14 percentage points more for Democrats than do white nonunion members.
    Steven Greenhouse, The New Republic, 6 May 2022
  • Walter Reuther called a strike against Kohler that ended up lasting six years, and Kohler hired nonunion workers who were beaten by union thugs.
    The Editors, National Review, 18 Sep. 2023
  • After The Courant made months of inquiries to city leaders about the payments, Bronin last week proposed cracking down on nonunion payouts.
    Jenna Carlesso, Courant Community, 8 May 2017
  • Rosenthal hopes to get funding to reach out to another three million nonunion voters in the coming months.
    Steven Greenhouse, The New Republic, 6 May 2022
  • New members could flip the board’s ideology — from one that wants to rein in charter schools to one that supports these independent and mostly nonunion public schools.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • In a world of scarce resources and priorities, however, nonunion workers bear the costs of current industrial and trade policies.
    Desirée Leclercq, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024

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