Meaning of "unionize" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF UNIONIZE

unionize  [ˈjuːnjəˌnaɪz]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNIONIZE

Unionize is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb unionize in English.

WHAT DOES UNIONIZE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Trade union

A trade union, labour union or labor union is an organization of workers who have united together to achieve common goals such as protecting the integrity of its trade, achieving higher pay and benefits such as health care and retirement, increasing the number of employees an employer assigns to complete the work, safety standards, and better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with employers. The most common purpose of these associations or unions is "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment". This may include the negotiation of wages, work rules, complaint procedures, rules governing hiring, firing and promotion of workers, benefits, workplace safety and policies. Unions may organize a particular section of skilled workers, a cross-section of workers from various trades, or attempt to organize all workers within a particular industry. The agreements negotiated by a union are binding on the rank and file members and the employer and in some cases on other non-member workers.

Definition of unionize in the English dictionary

The first definition of unionize in the dictionary is to organize into a trade union. Other definition of unionize is to join or cause to join a trade union. Unionize is also to subject to the rules or codes of a trade union.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO UNIONIZE

PRESENT

Present

I unionize

you unionize

he/she/it unionizes

we unionize

you unionize

they unionize

Present continuous

I am unionizing

you are unionizing

he/she/it is unionizing

we are unionizing

you are unionizing

they are unionizing

Present perfect

I have unionized

you have unionized

he/she/it has unionized

we have unionized

you have unionized

they have unionized

Present perfect continuous

I have been unionizing

you have been unionizing

he/she/it has been unionizing

we have been unionizing

you have been unionizing

they have been unionizing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I unionized

you unionized

he/she/it unionized

we unionized

you unionized

they unionized

Past continuous

I was unionizing

you were unionizing

he/she/it was unionizing

we were unionizing

you were unionizing

they were unionizing

Past perfect

I had unionized

you had unionized

he/she/it had unionized

we had unionized

you had unionized

they had unionized

Past perfect continuous

I had been unionizing

you had been unionizing

he/she/it had been unionizing

we had been unionizing

you had been unionizing

they had been unionizing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will unionize

you will unionize

he/she/it will unionize

we will unionize

you will unionize

they will unionize

Future continuous

I will be unionizing

you will be unionizing

he/she/it will be unionizing

we will be unionizing

you will be unionizing

they will be unionizing

Future perfect

I will have unionized

you will have unionized

he/she/it will have unionized

we will have unionized

you will have unionized

they will have unionized

Future perfect continuous

I will have been unionizing

you will have been unionizing

he/she/it will have been unionizing

we will have been unionizing

you will have been unionizing

they will have been unionizing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would unionize

you would unionize

he/she/it would unionize

we would unionize

you would unionize

they would unionize

Conditional continuous

I would be unionizing

you would be unionizing

he/she/it would be unionizing

we would be unionizing

you would be unionizing

they would be unionizing

Conditional perfect

I would have unionize

you would have unionize

he/she/it would have unionize

we would have unionize

you would have unionize

they would have unionize

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been unionizing

you would have been unionizing

he/she/it would have been unionizing

we would have been unionizing

you would have been unionizing

they would have been unionizing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you unionize
we let´s unionize
you unionize

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to unionize

Past participle

unionized

Present Participle

unionizing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

TRANSLATION OF UNIONIZE

Find out the translation of unionize to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of unionize from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unionize» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 组织工会
• Translator English - Spanish: sindicalizarse
• English: unionize
• Translator English - Hindi: यूनियन बनाना
• Translator English - Arabic: النقابات
• Translator English - Russian: профсоюзы
• Translator English - Portuguese: sindicalizar
• Translator English - Bengali: ট্রেড ইউনিয়নের বা টেড ইউনিয়ন সংক্রান্ত আইনের আওতায় আনা
• Translator English - French: syndiquer
• Translator English - Malay: Bersatu
• Translator English - German: gewerkschaftlich organisieren
• Translator English - Japanese: 合体させる
• Translator English - Korean: 노동 조합
• Translator English - Javanese: Unionize
• Translator English - Vietnamese: liên hiệp
• Translator English - Tamil: தொழிற்சங்கத்தில்
• Translator English - Marathi: संघटन करा
• Translator English - Turkish: birlik olmak
• Translator English - Italian: sindacalizzare
• Translator English - Polish: unionize
• Translator English - Ukrainian: профспілки
• Translator English - Romanian: formeze sindicate
• Translator English - Greek: συνδικαλισμού
• Translator English - Afrikaans: unionize
• Translator English - Swedish: unionize
• Translator English - Norwegian: unionize

3 QUOTES WITH «UNIONIZE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word unionize.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar

I think actually what I'm going to do when I'm done and take my next vacation, is I'm going to go over and start unions in Japan. I'm going to unionize Japan. Because the way they work those crews is so criminal. There's no overtime, so they can just keep going.

2

Adrienne Rich

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

3

Joe Wurzelbacher

It's an American worker's right to unionize for sure, but that being said, don't expect me not to point out when or if union leadership takes advantage of union members.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNIONIZE»

Discover the use of unionize in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unionize and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

When Public Sector Workers Unionize

Topics considered include the role, effect, and evolution of public sector labor law and the effects that public sector bargaining has on both wage and nonwage issues. Several themes emerge from the studies in this volume.

Richard B. Freeman, Casey Ichniowski, 2007

Working Class Stratification and the Demand for Unions in ...

ethnic groups, and income show their similar amount of effects on dispositions to unionize for both gender groups, younger workers tend to be relatively more deeply divided in dispositions to unionize along those categories than older workers ...

Hyunhee Kim, 1997

The Health Care Manager's Legal Guide

The reasons employee groups choose to unionize are numerous, including better wages and benefits, better working conditions, job security, and a collective voice; however, the desire to unionize can typically be attributed to workers' ...

Charles McConnell, 2011

Representing Workers: Trade Union Recognition and Membership ...

Willingness. to. unionize. amongst. non-union. workers. Andy Charlwood In Chapter 2, Stephen Machin explained how union membership in Britain has declined dramatically since the late 1970s. Surveying the evidence of union decline from ...

Howard F. Gospel, Stephen Wood, 2003

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, ...

Like the right to unionize, this even more specific right was thought to be needed to address the existing power imbalance between workers and employers. While the right to unionize can be seen as a way to implement the right to decent ...

Johannes Morsink, 1999

Unionization in the Academy: Visions and Realities

Another highly publicized case is ongoing at Columbia University, where the regional NLRB that had approved the NYU union also ruled in February 2002 that Columbia TAs, including some undergraduates, can unionize. The arguments in ...

Judith Wagner DeCew, 2003

Labour Law in Spain

87 on Trade Union Freedom and Protection of the Right to Unionize, and No. 98 on the Rights to Unionize and to Collective Bargaining. More important, the approval of the Constitution in December 1978, which recognizes and guarantees ...

Manuel Alonso Olea, Fermín Rodríguez-Sañudo, 2010

Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France: ...

Big Bill France (left) and Curtis Turner, with daredevil aviatrix and test driver Betty Skelton, in more congenial times during the mid1950s before Turner tried to unionize NASCAR drivers in 1961. (Courtesy of McCaigWelborn Research Library ...

Dan Pierce, 2010

Strengthening America’s middle class : finding economic ...

... including discussing whether to unionize or not, but do think it is different if you are discussing who you voted for or who you should vote for for President versus whether you should vote to unionize something that impacts you directly in that ...

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Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of ...

The UnStrike strategy is not without precedent, and was used effectively by CAW 3000 in the 1990s to unionize stores belonging to the food chains Whitespot and KFC. Through these initiatives, CAW 3000 has been at the head of attempts to ...

Gavin Fridell, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNIONIZE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unionize is used in the context of the following news items.

Google Express Workers Move to Unionize

More than 140 contract workers for Google Express, the search engine's fledgling delivery service, have filed for organized representation, according to a ... «Re/code, Jul 15»

WestJet Pilots To Vote On Unionizing This Week

The WestJet Professional Pilots Association, which is pushing to unionize the company's roughly 1,300 pilots, says a Yes vote will create a legalized structure ... «Huffington Post Canada, Jul 15»

Salon staff votes to unionize

The announcement on Thursday comes a month after Gawker Media voted overwhelmingly to unionize, which was a first for staffers at a major digital outlet. «CNNMoney, Jul 15»

Gawker's Editorial Staff Votes Overwhelmingly to Unionize

gawker The hard-snarking editors at Gawker Media voted 80-27 to unionize yesterday. With the vote, the editorial staff of Gawker, Deadspin, Jezebel and ... «Mediaite, Jun 15»

Allegheny General Hospital Workers Vote To Unionize

Service and technical workers at Allegheny General Hospital voted Wednesday to unionize with more than 80 percent of the 1,200 workers voting in approval. «90.5 WESA, Jun 15»

Pennsylvania Home Health Care Aides Vote to Unionize

A union claimed victory Friday in its effort to organize 20,000 home health aides in Pennsylvania, even as two pending lawsuits seeking to block the union drive ... «Wall Street Journal, Apr 15»

Gawker writers trying to unionize

Members of Gawker Media's staff are attempting to unionize, according to a post ... He listed his personal reasons for wanting to unionize but added that "nobody ... «CNBC, Apr 15»

Boeing South Carolina workers to vote April 22 on whether to unionize

Boeing workers in South Carolina will vote April 22 on whether to unionize, a decision of enormous importance for Boeing operations in Washington and in the ... «Puget Sound Business Journal, Mar 15»

Silicon Valley shuttle drivers vote to unionize

In another advance for organized labor in Silicon Valley, the shuttle drivers who transport employees for companies such as Apple, eBay and Yahoo opted ... «USA TODAY, Feb 15»

Supreme Court backs Mounties' right to unionize

Mounties have won the right to unionize, with far-reaching implications not only for the national police force but for the rights of organized labour throughout the ... «The Globe and Mail, Jan 15»