Sentence examples for control over union from inspiring English sources

As a result, the mayor says he is forced to rein in spending over those areas he does have control over: union contracts, the size of the city's workforce and other discretionary spending by city agencies.

China dismissed questions about its harsh controls over union organizing this week as it agreed to an ambitious program of cooperation with an international labor agency intended to improve the welfare of the country's huge and troubled work force.

The prospect of losing absolute control over directing union dues to liberal candidates and causes is driving John Sweeney's A.F.L.-C.I.O.

The government said at the time that the two criminal cases, which led to the conviction of 26 union officials and members and more than a dozen accused mob figures, had established that the crime families wielded sufficient control over the union to secure no-show jobs for mob associates.

3) Government control over student unions?

But in fact, the new president has consolidated the corporatist and clientelistic control over the unions.

Mr. Ochirbat told the congress that the time had come to end dictatorial party control over trade unions, religion, art, science and mass organizations.

The general strike was started in opposition to a bill sponsored by Dr. Jagan which Trades Union Council leaders said would give the government control over labor unions.

We don't believe they have any influence or control over labor unions". "All the muscle is out of them," Bob Morehouse, supervisor of California's Organized Crime Bureau, said of the Cosa Nostra here in Los Angeles and in Southern California.

The complaint charged that the current Teamster general executive board members, through various acts and failures to act, have permitted members and associates of La Cosa Nostra to maintain control over the international union and certain of its locals.

The former ruling party in Mexico, which held power until December, had political control over many labor unions and squelched two short-lived strikes at Aeroméxico in 1998 and 2000.