Sentence examples for labor push from inspiring English sources

A LABOR PUSH FOR GORE -- John J. Sweeney, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s president, is making a West Coast swing this week to mobilize labor members on behalf of Vice President Al Gore.

And the fact that organized labor pushed the bill early on only made it more distasteful, conservatives say.

In his story, Mr. Corrigan writes: "The labor pusher took me to the second-floor locker room and showed me an empty locker.

In the negotiations, business vigorously objected to labor's push to have employers pay guest workers more than they pay local workers — an idea labor pushed to encourage employers to increase wages and to discourage them from bringing in guest workers.

When Mr. Obama was first elected, labor pushed for the stimulus bill and health care legislation, but also sought a host of more specific bills, such as the so-called card check bill, which are no longer on the top of their agenda.

At the same time, increasing mechanization reduced the need for farm labor, pushing agricultural wages downward and rural unemployment upward.

I believed that my body had done what nature intended it to do, and labored, pushed and delivered a tragically unnatural result: a silent and still baby.

But labor's push has stumbled into two formidable problems.

But Charlie Cook, a nonpartisan political handicapper, questioned how successful labor's push will be.

The move could undercut labor's push to help Democrats regain control of the House.

But corporate America has already declared war on labor's push for new legislation that would help unions organize.