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n. A job where employment status is guaranteed by a union; a sinecure.
Usage examples of "union job".
Twelve years later, I had handled almost every union job someone with my qualifications could holddock slob, cargo grunt, navigator, life support chief, even a couple of second-mate assignmentson more vessels than I could count, ranging from orbital tugs and lunar freighters to passenger shuttles and Apollo-class ore haulers.
Twelve years later, I had handled almost every union job someone with my qualifications could hold-dock slob, cargo grunt, navigator, life support chief, even a couple of second-mate assignments-on more vessels than I could count, ranging from orbital tugs and lunar freighters to passenger shuttles and Apollo-class ore haulers.
On her union job, which was somewhere between menial and professional, she's managed to do well for both of her sons, ever worrying as mothers do about their companions and their chances.
Only a week ago he had been staring down the barrel of a life spent in a factory town -- of a union job, of a series of financed Fords, a mortgage, too many kids, and a wife who'd go to fat.