autoworker

English

Etymology

From auto +‎ worker.

Noun

autoworker (plural autoworkers)

  1. Someone who works as an assembly line worker in an automobile assembly plant.
    Hypernyms: worker < person
    Coordinate terms: steelworker, ironworker, officeworker
    In the United States, the main autoworkers' union is the UAW, the United Auto Workers.
    • 2024 June 22, Monica Stark, “Grad students will strike at UCD next week”, in The Davis Enterprise‎[1]:
      Though Davis hasn’t experienced the violence other campuses faced, Weintraut said UCD grad students stand in solidarity with UCLA, UCI and UCSD and chose to follow the stand-up strike strategy the UAW used to organize autoworkers.
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