Sentence examples for cost union from inspiring English sources

In the case of Delphi, GM spun off its parts business but made the new company take the old, high cost union contracts–a recipe for disaster.

Sure, businesses wants to see local tourism flourish, but not at such a steep cost, union president Maria Elena Mata said.

A win would cost unions millions of dollars in revenue, and be a heavy blow to a major backer of the Democrat party.

After all, paying the prudent amount into the pension funds would mean either raising taxes (which alienates business and voters) or cutting spending (which costs union jobs).

US Airways is a chronic moneyloser saddled with high-cost union contracts, expensive gate leases and the threat of low-fare competition from Southwest Airlines.

Just about everything: loss of market share, humongous retiree costs, union difficulties, restructuring, rising raw materials prices, excessive inventory, lackluster new products.

By increasing wages and related labour costs, unions have also encouraged employers to take actions that improve labour productivity.

PAGE A29 BUSINESS IN FRANCE, DOWNTURN Costs Unions Influence Union workers at a Peugeot car plant in eastern France once had enough clout to win shorter workweeks and longer vacations -- during the Great Depression.

The design college, which enrolls about 1,100 full-time students, sought to link the cost of union dues to substantial salaries for union organizers and spending on political campaigns.

It was about the pending move of a fruit-importing operation in Camden from a unionized dock to another nearby, a shift that would cost the union about 200 jobs.

The total cost, the union concluded, was $18.7 million a year.