union shop

Example Sentences

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Conversations no longer focused on his dad’s latest story, but on the duties he had to fulfill as a union shop steward.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2023

A trade union shop steward in Glasgow's shipyards before he moved into football, Ferguson's final team talk concentrated on working-class values.

From BBC • May 7, 2023

We employ 30 people who speak eight different languages in a union shop represented by the United Steelworkers.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2020

I figured that since it was a union shop I could get health care coverage, but I was always scheduled just a few hours shy of qualifying for full-time status.

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2018

Officially mine had become a union shop, yet my men continued to work on non-union terms.

From The Rise of David Levinsky by Cahan, Abraham