Sentence examples for rigid union from inspiring English sources

"What you then get is a demand for social justice that comes out in very rigid union and health and safety things.

To achieve these goals, GM must free itself of rigid union work rules so it can install Toyota-like flexibility in its manufacturing.

It should be noted, that to reduce the effect of the rigid union between steel bars and concrete on the tail of the behavior curve of concrete another fixture system, allowing the rotation between the pulling bars and concrete, could be also employed.

These include the loss of market share to foreign automakers, a potential peak in sales of large trucks and SUVs, "relatively modest capacity reductions due to rigid union agreements," unsustainable growth of the companies' obligations in healthcare and pensions, "a seemingly ever-heightening dependence upon incentives to move product," and the deterioration of credit quality.

Pay raises have little to do with how hard teachers work or how their students perform; instead pay is calculated under a rigid, union-negotiated formula based on how many years teachers have put in and how many extra diplomas they've collected.

Interviewed on TV, spokespeople for the Royal Mail seem rigid, while union spokespeople come across as reasonable.

In the arena of agriculture, Poland, a new member state, is the latest victim of the union's rigid, top-down dictates.

Complacent, conceited and with pretensions that show how little they have understood the changes in the rest of the world, they have made 'ever closer union' a rigid ideology to be implemented whatever the will of the peoples of Europe and at whatever the cost.

Workers agreed to toss out rigid work rules and union job classifications that often resulted in waste; so now some workers perform multiple jobs.

It is well to remember that if the surgeon has to employ any means for retaining an epiphysis in position, as, for example, in separation of the lower epiphysis of the femur, he should insist on the removal of the rigid connecting medium after union has been effected, otherwise it will control the growth in the epiphysial line and deformity will result.

However, if screw loosening or breakage occurs before rigid fusion is achieved; it will increase the likelihood of non-union with subsequent morbidity.