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nonunion

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Word definitions for nonunion in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nonunion \Non*un"ion\, a. Not belonging to, or affiliated with, a trades union; as, a nonunion carpenter. Not employing trade union members; not recognizing or favoring trades unions or trades-unionists; as, a nonunion contractor; a nonunion subcontractor. ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not belonging to or not allowing affiliation with a trade union; "nonunion carpenters"; "a nonunion contractor" [ant: union ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Not part of a labor union; not unionized. n. Lack of union; failure to become united.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Nonunion is permanent failure of healing following a broken bone . Nonunion is a serious complication of a fracture and may occur when the fracture moves too much, has a poor blood supply or gets infected. Patients who smoke have a higher incidence of nonunion. ...

Usage examples of nonunion.

When their time came they were grasped by the arms and hustled indecorously from their cells to an open field where a burly nonunion executioner held aloft a simple sword.

The little scamp was only thirty-one years old and the owner of the most successful nonunion summer stock theater in the East.

The long-dreaded conflict between the forces of the strikers and the nonunion men who have taken their places has come at last.

It meant work, but too much of it nonunion and bought shamefully cheap.

Gregory-until now a nonunion hotelcould be a crack in this massive dam of organized resistance.

The contractors, evidently prepared for such happening, immediately filled the places of the concrete men with nonunion Italians.

After the dispute had dragged The Disillusionment of Davie Fulton 165 on for two months, the strikers raided the camps of nonunion loggers hired by the companies.

It was a nonunion shop and I suppose the labor people would say all three of the Tarkingtons were paternalistic exploiters of the uneducated working man and woman.

His processing plant in Virginia was nonunion, and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union began an all-out boycott campaign against his chickens.

In the building trades, the key to nonunion labor was Cosa Nostra control of union shop stewards, many of whom were made members or had put sons or relatives in as stewards.

With nonunion workers, even with payoffs, the profit was 30 percent or more.

The printers Random House uses are also nonunion, as is the warehouse that distributes the books.

What finished product we had, they trucked to a warehouse and put under nonunion guard.

The wage rates are based on a complicated formula that supposedly averages previous union and nonunion wages in a given town.

Now Davis-Bacon is used to protect unions, and as a result, government buildings cost taxpayers millions more and deserving nonunion workers are denied opportunity.