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They promoted unionization and job safety legislation for women.
A series of strikes forced the companies to allow unionization in their plants.
Unionization rates are higher in the public sector.

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unionization | Business English

unionization
noun[ U ]
 HR, WORKPLACE (UK alsounionisation)uk /ˌjuːniənaɪˈzeɪʃən/ us /juːnjənəˈzeɪʃən/
the process of forming a trade union, or organizing workers into a trade union:
Leading senators are concerned that unionization of state workers could jeopardize their traditional 5% annual pay raise.
the degree to which workers in an organization, industry, etc. belong to a trade union:
Confrontation sometimes arises between employee groups with differing levels of unionization.

Examples of unionization

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Finally, the high rate of unionization among construction workers and performance artists can also be explained as a result of complete contracts.
These discuss only how particular factors made particular industries at particular times prone to unionization.
The result is low wages that make workers prone to unionization.
First, large corporations enjoyed massive economic power to defeat unionization drives decisively.
This explains why raising wages to $5 per day was a good way to prevent unionization.
Figure 3, unionization rates dropped from 23 percent of the labor force in 1980 to 13.5 percent currently.
A self-proclaimed communist and influential cultural activist, he spoke regularly to workers' organizations, urging unionization and the improvement of factory labor conditions.
Would there be minimum wage institutions, employment protection, unionization, and collective bargaining?
Our ambition is different and the issue of unionization and imperfectly competitive wage setting rules is beyond the scope of our paper.
Unionization of die superior grades in diese sectors was classically ' new model' and ' closed'.
Thus, the prohibition on secondary boycotts became a serious barrier to unionization when companies engaged in systematic subcontracting and outsourcing.
Nevertheless, the statistical evidence suggests that union strength may be negatively linked with capital inflows, except that unionization under labor governance again enhances economic performance.
Salmond points out that northern textile workers came from a long tradition of unionization and mobilized in communities deeply etched in class institutions.
This type of unionization exaggerates union density, which is more accurately reflected by the composition of industrial unions in the total membership.
We also control for the financial condition of the firms, the level of unionization, size of the firm, and industry membership.
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