Sentence examples for demand for union from inspiring English sources

On May 15th, the Met issued a statement defending its demand for union pay cuts.

Once the 2003 budget is settled, the debate will intensify over Mr. Suozzi's demand for union givebacks versus his threatened cuts in other programs.

Democratic leaders in Congress said they had dropped their demand for union bargaining rights for airport screeners in the hope of reviving antiterrorism legislation that had stalled because of a presidential veto threat.

More than 250 striking workers at a large industrial laundry, Oceanside Institutional Industries, returned to work yesterday after the company agreed to the workers' demands for union recognition.

As more and more businesses incorporate Silicon Valley-style mass innovation into their core management practices, it's unclear whether employees will face the same authoritarian conditions that fueled demands for unions.

But pro-union graduate students rejected it yesterday, saying that it did not respond to their demand for a union to represent them as employees.

The demand for civil union was passé: In July 2010, Argentina had become the first country in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage.

The Greek Cypriots' demand for enosis (union with Greece) was opposed by Turkish Cypriots, constituting a major division in the island's politics; a string of almost annual petitions demanding enosis were matched by counterpetitions and demonstrations from the Turkish Cypriots.

Indeed, much of his appeal was to anti-religious voters who liked his demand for civil unions, thereby breaking the orthodox rabbinate's current monopoly on state-sanctioned marriage.

The mayor also still plans to demand that raises for union employees be based almost entirely on performance, instead of being awarded automatically.

Although Ireland broke away during the first world war, most demands for looser union have followed calmer interludes.