Sentence examples for unions from high-quality English sources.

• Police unions enjoy a political paradox.

• Since 1979 membership of trade unions has halved.

• Nazi rule from 1933 to 1945 suppressed free trade unions.

• In addition, not all credit unions are insured like banks.

• The PAN used to be suspicious of the PRI-dominated trade unions.

• During the 20th century, craft unions lost ground to industrial unions.

• Unions serve an essential role in a democratic society by giving voice to worker interests.

• South Korea's public-sector unions are likely to be bitter opponents of Mr Lee's privatisation programme.

Use unions in a sentence.

• Local leaders told police unions and other public-sector unions that they had little money for raises.

• Local trade unions are affiliated with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions through its Northern Ireland Committee.

• As a result, while most unions in the U.S. have grown weaker since the seventies, police unions have grown stronger.

• Its member groups comprised national trade or craft unions that organized local unions and negotiated wages, hours, and working…

• Big business lobbies and trade unions used to scrap over immigration, with employers wanting cheaper labour, and unions fearing it.

• Unions that were politically more to the left of JTUC-Rengo formed the much smaller National Confederation of Trade Unions (Zenroren).

• Other important labour unions are the Confederation of Vocational Unions (Yrkesorganisasjonenes Sentralforbund; YS) and the Federation of Norwegian Professional Associations (Akademikerne).

• And the middle class was built by unions — unions — and the American people now finally get it after a long time of being convinced that unions were a problem, not the answer.”

unions sentence examples

• But strict socialists feared that unions were compromised by the bargains they struck with capitalists, and even proponents of the Chicago idea did not wish for unions to seize political power.

• Other major unions include the Swiss White-Collar Federation (Vereinigung Schweizerischer Angestelltenverbände) and the Confederation of Christian Trade Unions (Christlichnationaler Gewerkschaftsbund).

• “We recognize that the loss of payments from nonmembers may cause unions to experience unpleasant transition costs in the short term, and may require unions to make adjustments in order to attract and retain members,” Justice Alito wrote.

• In 1990–92 the groundwork was laid for the creation of independent labour associations with the formation of the Association of Estonian Trade Unions and the Estonian Employees’ Unions’ Association, the country’s two main trade unions.