Ultimately, the 1981 strike was called to leverage demands that included improved working conditions, a reduced workweek, and the replacement of outmoded equipment.
The agencies also have been working to reshape the Volcker Rule's limits on banks investing with their own money, and the Fed has been working on overhauling its capital rules, leverage demands, stress-test expectations and requirements for so-called living wills that plan how each lender would go bankrupt without hurting the broader financial system.
They also make money leveraging demand into volume discount deals with airlines and hotels.
Meanwhile, some UK companies are offering "pawternity" leave, and a few businesses now offer unlimited vacation time but these are cushy benefits accrued by people working for shiny tech startups and other in-demand professionals who have the leverage to demand such perks.
Workers also need to have enough leverage to demand substantial raises — which then forces companies to increase prices and, in turn, gives workers further reason to demand raises.
Now people are actually demanding that". And other companies are looking to leverage that demand.
Many House Republicans have pledged to use the need to increase the debt ceiling as leverage to demand cuts to federal benefits programs and for delays or the withholding of funds from "Obamacare," President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reforms.
At an Idaho fund-raiser on Monday for Representative Mike Simpson, a Republican and a close ally, Mr. Boehner said he planned to use the need to raise the debt ceiling to gain political leverage and demand "cuts and reforms that are greater than the increase in the debt limit".
Smaller, extremist parties would have the leverage to demand being put in charge of key ministries.
Now that Democrats are in the majority, they have more leverage to demand that information.
