Sentence examples for labor lobby from inspiring English sources

But other Americans and the powerful labor lobby say that what the tech industry really wants is to depress wages and bring in more pliant, less costly temporary workers from overseas.

But Americans like Mr. Doernberg and the powerful labor lobby say that what the tech industry really wants is to depress wages and bring in more pliant, less costly temporary workers from overseas.

And kudos to all those who continue to labor, lobby and legislate toward the day when equal protection equally protects and when liberty and justice for all really means ALL.

The A.F.L.-C.I.O. has called for repealing the law that bars employers from hiring illegal immigrants -- a law organized labor lobbied successfully for in 1986.

That working relationship was cemented when management and labor lobbied Albany together in late 2001 to pump funds into the health care field to lift wages.

On Wednesday, the House voted 237 to 197 in favor of granting permanent normal trade relations to China, with labor lobbying fervently against the bill and business and President Clinton backing it.

Some are pointedly from the labor lobbies who have led the president to use his first meetings with President Felipe Calderón of Mexico and Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada to urge on them tougher labor standards, a protectionist demand that arises from unjustified fear of external competition and the consequent desire to raise the foreigners' cost of production.

If these constraints were removed, and the market allowed to decide what each industry could afford to pay, the result would be, following perhaps a few years of transitional pain, growth to industries such as manufacturing, farming and other industries that have been badly impaired in the US as a result of union and other labor lobbying efforts.

But in what promises to be a major business-labor lobbying battle, hotel owners and managers are pushing back against the Los Angeles proposal.

A labor group lobbying on a bill would have onerous disclosure requirements, whereas a corporation lobbying on the same bill would not.

Representative Bob Clement, a Tennessee Democrat, acknowledged that labor's lobbying helped sway him to oppose the bill.