nonunion
IPA: nɑnjˈunjʌn
noun
- Lack of union; failure to become united.
- (countable, pathology) The failure of a broken bone to heal
adjective
- Not part of a labor union; not unionized.
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Examples of "nonunion" in Sentences
- The decision also keeps Delta as the only major U.S. airline that is largely nonunion.
- This is why overall labor costs are lower in nonunion auto plants than in union auto plants.
- The UAW is discussing a German-style works council for a nonunion Volkswagen plant in Tennessee.
- The National Mediation Board's ruling affirms an employee vote in 2010 that kept the 13,000 Delta baggage and freight handlers nonunion.
- While the industry's revenue has grown 28% since 2006, when wireless employment peaked at 207,000 workers, its mostly nonunion work force has shrunk about 20%.
- The National Mediation Board in recent weeks ruled that the elections for about 20,000 flight attendants and 700 stock clerks were fair, keeping them nonunion.
- There will also be much more diversity in educational offerings, and money and jobs will flow out of the (unionized) regular schools into new (nonunion) providers of online options.
- The NLRB in April alleged Boeing illegally retaliated against union workers by shifting union jobs in Washington state to a nonunion plant in South Carolina, where Boeing built a 787 Dreamliner jet production line.
- Plant workers blame Washington for higher gasoline prices, which hurt demand for automobiles; for spending money on Iraq that could be spent at home; and for failing, as they see it, to stop illegal immigrants from taking jobs in nonunion shops.
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