Sentence examples for labor wars from inspiring English sources

Cone, a veteran of baseball's labor wars, added, "The only solution is to get people in a room and negotiate".

That experience undoubtedly prepared Mitchell for the baseball labor wars, in which both sides remember outrages of two decades ago.

To direct it, George Meany, who was in effect running the A.F.L., and David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, picked Jay Lovestone to be their commander in chief for the labor wars.

But the patrician Kuhn often seemed buffeted and besieged by the gales of change, like the toppling of the reserve clause and free agency, which he said he thought would destroy baseball, and the angry labor wars in which he was outmaneuvered by Marvin Miller, who led the players union.

Having been involved in the labor wars of the 80's and 90's in Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association, I was well aware of the enormous gains made by Bob Goodenow and the National Hockey League Players Association over the past decade.

Major League Baseball owners and players may yet erupt in one of their typical labor wars, but for now they are maintaining a tone so civil that for the first time ever, a commissioner has invited a union leader to address the club owners.

Torre was incredulous when asked if baseball would suffer from this summer's labor war.

But this generation of players has not taken on ownership in a labor war.

Baseball's latest labor war had brought an eighth work stoppage in 23 years.

If July was defined by discomfiting silence and August by incendiary rhetoric, then September has been all about quiet diplomacy in the N.B.A. labor war.

With a labor war looming and restrictive rules in place governing free agency, willing bidders are scarce, and eligible and deserving players scarcer still.