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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unionize
verb
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▪ About 10 percent of the private sector and 37 percent in the public sector are unionized, according to the AFL-CIO.
▪ Fifty years ago, governments were not unionized.
▪ He said that unionized or civil-service workers have protection about what can go in their files.
▪ In 1995, unionized Safeway employees struck for nine days before reaching a contract settlement.
▪ In the private sector, only 15 percent is unionized.
▪ Most of their work force is unionized, as is the shipping industry, which is in Oakland and not San Francisco.
▪ Osborne believes the only way to give physicians a say in how their patients are cared for is to unionize.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unionize

1841, "make into a union" (transitive), from union + -ize. Sense "form into a trade union" is from 1887. Related: Unionized; unionizing.

Wiktionary
unionize

vb. (context ambitransitive English) To organize workers into a union.

WordNet
unionize
  1. v. recruit for a union or organize into a union; "We don't allow people to come into our plant and try to unionize the workers" [syn: unionise]

  2. form or join a union; "The autoworkers decided to unionize" [syn: unionise, organize, organise]

Usage examples of "unionize".

His simple idea was that the Marxists should support the workers in efforts to unionize and to ameliorate their conditions.

DiIenno called Local 1360 of the United Food and Commercial Workers union and volunteered her services in its drive to unionize area Wal-Mart stores.

To unionize a workplace, at least 30 percent of its workers must sign cards calling for an election that is administered by the NLRB.

Wal-Mart, but the most difficult adjustment for Lehman was running a unionized shop.

In February 2000, the butchers voted in the UFCW by a 7-to-3 margin, establishing the Jacksonville meat counter as the first unionized Wal-Mart unit in the United States.

They chose Las Vegas, which was a show unto itself, of course, but also happened to be the most heavily unionized major city in America.

When Costco opened a store, it modeled its wages-and-benefits package on the contracts of unionized grocery stores in the area.

Each of the aluminum smelters and the pulp and paper factories that dot its ruggedly scenic landscape is unionized and has been for decades.

In fact, if the necessary number of signatures can be collected covertly, a store can be unionized before management even knows an organizing drive is under way.

UFCW and the company were glaring at each other from opposite corners of the ring when a Wal-Mart store in Sainte-Hyacinthe unionized in January 2005.

Just in so far as the combination of capital continues to be economically necessary, it is bound to be accompanied by the completer unionizing of labor.

These buildings had once housed a variety of light industries whose products were now turned out cheaper in Taiwan or Korea or even in sparsely unionized pockets of the sunbelt far from New York.

Chicago leader Abrams promised a general price increase to end price wars if the cleaners and dyers got together and unionized their plants.

The unionized professors and the unionized support staff and the meccano the scientists and doctors demand, all cost megatons of money, and how does the Alma Mater get it?

His family background may have led him to embrace socialistic tendencies, since his father had been a unionized mine worker.