Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not belonging to a labor union.
- adjective Not recognizing or dealing with a labor union or employing union members.
- noun The failure of a fractured bone to heal normally.
from The Century Dictionary.
- That does not submit to the rules or the dictation of a trade-union; not employing union men as such, and exclusively: as, a non-union shop.
- Not belonging to a trades-union: as, a non-union man.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not belonging to, or affiliated with, a trades union.
- adjective Not employing trade union members; not recognizing or favoring trades unions or trades-unionists.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not part of a
labor union ; notunionized .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not belonging to or not allowing affiliation with a trade union
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Examples
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This is why overall labor costs are lower in nonunion auto plants than in union auto plants.
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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.
Archive 2006-10-01 peaknik 2006
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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.
NYT: In a GOP Stronghold, 3 Districts in Indiana Are Now Battlegrounds peaknik 2006
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The National Mediation Board's ruling affirms an employee vote in 2010 that kept the 13,000 Delta baggage and freight handlers nonunion.
Delta Wins Third Case Against Interference Charges in Union Elections Jack Nicas 2011
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The decision also keeps Delta as the only major U.S. airline that is largely nonunion.
Delta Wins Third Case Against Interference Charges in Union Elections Jack Nicas 2011
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The UAW is discussing a German-style works council for a nonunion Volkswagen plant in Tennessee.
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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 Internet Will Reduce Teachers Union Power Terry Moe 2011
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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.
House Passes Bill Restricting NLRB Melanie Trottman 2011
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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%.
Wireless Jobs Vanish Anton Troianovski 2011
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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.
Delta Wins Third Case Against Interference Charges in Union Elections Jack Nicas 2011
kmassie commented on the word nonunion
From the book White Oleander by Janet Fitch. Pg. 10.
"He had to do it under a pseudonym, Wolfram Malevich, because it was nonunion."
November 1, 2010