Sentence examples for organizing clout from inspiring English sources

The union put its organizing clout behind it, helping families dealing with diabetes tell their stories to lawmakers and the public.

"Their organized clout is real.

Over the years they've accreted to the system like barnacles and have the organized clout to protect their spoils and block any threat to the status quo.

Google and other large technology companies will have some sway through both community organizing and purchased political clout.

The vote was the latest show of organized labor's clout at City Hall.

The plaintiffs are represented by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, an anti-union group that funds lawsuits aimed at diminishing organized labor's clout.

The plaintiffs in Harris v. Quinn were represented by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, a conservative group that bankrolls cases aimed at diminishing organized labor's clout.

But as organized labor's clout has waned -- a mere 6.7percentt of private-sector workers now belong to a union -- alt-labor groups have been effective at making employers squirm and notching victories for workers, particularly in low-wage industries like food and retail.

Since Mr. Sweeney took the helm of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of industrialate 1995ations in late 1995, he has not just increased labor's focus on organizing, but expanded its political clout by getting unions to devote more effort and money to electoral campaigns.

President Obama led a movement that, for the first time, was capable of organizing enough political power to overcome the enormous clout of the insurance industry, the political right and substantial elements of the business community.

"It's been an interesting strategic move by the C.W.A.," Mr. Katz said of the Communications Workers of America, the industry's largest union, "to take advantage of its political clout and link it to collective bargaining goals and organizing".