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- noun Alternative spelling of
unionization .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun act of forming labor unions
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Examples
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In the U.S. and U.K., however, the unionisation is very confrontational; in large part it is seen as a zero-sum game whereby any gains of the unions are considered, even by the union bosses themselves, to be at the expense of the shareholders.
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Card check legislation, i.e. coercive unionisation, is hardly giving “people the chance to opt out of the working class altogether.”
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The doctors had always been extremely well organised, militant and vociferous, but nurses became more militant and with the upsurge in white collar unionisation from the 60s onwards, all groups in the work force became forces to be reckoned with.
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“Card check legislation, i.e. coercive unionisation”
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Changes enacted by the Kiwi government mean actors will be treated as contractors, rather than employees, which affects their right to unionisation, strike action, holidays and sick pay.
New Zealand changes labour laws to save filming of the Hobbit movies Andrew Clark 2010
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Not for their opposition to labour unionisation or their occasionally law-infringing workplace policies.
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Not for their opposition to labour unionisation or their occasionally law-infringing workplace policies.
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Low levels of unionisation and organisation have meant protests that are chaotic but difficult for the police to predict or break up.
Children beaten by Bangladeshi police as they join garment workers' strikes 2010
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Idiosyncratic, defiant and distinctive are all words that apply to this agit-prop musical, and they might also be used to describe the Arcola and director Mehmet Ergen, who stages Marc Blitzstein's 1937 piece about corporate greed and unionisation as the theatre's swansong in its current premises.
The Cradle Will Rock – review Lyn Gardner 2010
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After all, if the premise is that unionisation is at worst neutral and it appears implicit in 29 USC 158 in general that it is then how can it be — one would be able to refinance, logically, on the underlying premise?
The Volokh Conspiracy » What New Bond Covenants Would You Demand 2009
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