Sentence examples for The unionism from inspiring English sources
noun
The support of advocacy of a union, especially of a trade union
I unreservedly endorse what I'll call the "unionism of free association".
She tells him, "If you don't fight for the unionism of our people, who will?" Ashley Totten Mario Van Peebless), a porter who is the titular head of Pullman's sham union, asks Randolph to help start a real one.
My difficulty in coming out wholeheartedly for private-sector unions as they now exist is that they are, by and large, creatures of objectionable statutes which have badly warped the labour-capital power dynamic that would exist under the unionism of free association.Progressives and libertarians generally part ways on the justifiability of legislation that boosts the bargaining power of unions.
A traveler to the region immediately after Appomattox captured the character of the Northern sentiment in the region: "The Unionism of Western North Carolina … was less a love for the Union than a personal hatred of those who went into the Rebellion.
But there's a sad and instructive point in the kidnapping of the old unionism by the new rich, and that's that the only people left in America with any chance at all of defying billionaires are millionaires.
He backed the new unionism of the late 19th century, the aims and tactics of the suffragettes, and the (still) unpopular causes of republicanism and pacifism.
But he warned his party against slipping into what George Bernard Shaw called the "trade unionism of the married", stressing that the Tories are now at peace with Britain's single mothers.
"The social unionism of the 1920s had it right," she says.
In the hovel of coercive unionism, the California prison guards union (the California Correctional Peace Officers Association) is the leader.
That is why we alone work to develop a new nationalism - one that does not conduct itself by the standards of the old unionism,' he said.
So the paradox of the fall of the House of Paisley could be the bolstering of unionism and the frustration of the republican dream of securing a United Ireland by 2016, the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising.
