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nonunionized

nonunionized

1 7.5
People or workplaces not represented by a group that speaks for workers
  • adjective
  • /nɑnˈjunɪˌnaɪzd/
translation icon : no sindicalizado
  • In a nonunionized workplace, employees must negotiate their own salaries.
  • nonunionized workers
  • nonunionized labor

Examples

  • Collective bargaining fuels innovations in wages, benefits, and work practices that affect both unionized and nonunionized workers.

    Blog text (11)
  • There is nothing in the extensive economic analysis of unions to suggest that there are economic costs that offset the positive union impact on the wages, benefits, and labor protections of unionized and nonunionized workers.

    Blog text (11)
  • It is also important to note that this study deals only with three nonunionized states.

    Academic text (2002)
  • But nonunionized faculty must invent other means.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Unions also set pay standards and practices that raise the wages of nonunionized workers in occupations and industries where there is a strong union presence.

    Blog text (11)
  • As can be seen in Table 2 and Figure 1, mean satisfaction levels of nonunionized faculty are higher in eight of the nine dimensions of job satisfaction.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Even when formal-sector companies retained workers, they often selected those in nonunionized subdivisions (Vilas 1999).

    Academic text (2002)
  • Since unions have ratcheted up wages and secured benefits greatly in excess of those available to nonunionized workers (both domestically and internationally), that pattern can be expected to continue.

    Academic text (2009)
  • The modus vivendi achieved has also entrenched a certain dichotomy between unionized male and nonunionized female sectors of the formal non-tertiary economy.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Many companies prefer to hire nonunionized workers to save on union fees.

Synonyms

unaffiliated
vsnonunionized
15 6.6

Not officially connected to any group or organization

is specific to workers and trade union representation
unorganized
vsnonunionized
  • US
1 3.7

A worker who is not a member of a trade union

is the same in meaning and used as an alternate label
nonaligned
vsnonunionized
1 6.7

Not part of any party or group and not supporting either side

means not represented by a trade union rather than general neutrality
nonaffiliated
vsnonunionized
5.9

Not connected to any group, organization, or political party

refers specifically to lack of trade union representation

Antonyms

12 4.4

A workplace where workers are members of a group that talks to the employer for them

How Unionized

unionized
  • US
12 4.4
nonunionized
1 7.5

Surface Forms

nonunionized positive

Morphology

nonunionized = unionized (transparent) = non + union + ize + ed

A straightforward negative prefix 'non-' attached to 'unionized' to indicate 'not represented by a union.'

Etymology

Nonunionized is made of non- ('not'), union ('a group of workers who join together'), and the ending -ized ('made or treated as'). So nonunionized means 'not part of a union', which is why it describes workers who are not represented by a trade union.