Sentence examples for secure union from inspiring English sources

Decades ago, he became a national figure, leading farm workers to picket lines and using boycotts to secure union contracts for the notoriously underpaid workers.

A reinvigorated NUJ chapel has won an almost unanimous vote to take some form of industrial action to defend their jobs and secure union negotiating rights.

Because the president of the Oxford Union tried to secure union funds in order to sue a student newspaper after it outed him as a member.

He was protesting alongside fast-food workers who are fighting to raise the minimum wage and secure union rights.

Such workers may not be able to secure union contracts, but they can still pressure their companies and their industries into raising pay and changing workplace policies.

Ireland, which presently holds the rotating six-month E.U. presidency, aims to secure Union-wide agreement on the start of negotiations at a meeting set for June 14, with a final goal of 2015 for completion.

The pledge was a side agreement to the free-trade pact with the United States that was essential to securing union acquiescence to the pact, as well as the votes of Congressional Democrats.

Mr. Carter had traveled to Washington earlier in the year, where in a meeting at the White House with Gen. George B. McClellan and President Lincoln, he secured Union political and military support.

Did Alan Johnson cave in to union pressure when he allowed existing civil servants and other public sector workers to retain full pension entitlements at age 60? Or did he in fact win a victory over the forces of rampant public expenditure by securing union agreement to a future retirement age of 65?

Philip Sheridan was a career United States Army officer who was instrumental in securing Union successes during the Valley Campaigns of 1864, most notably the Battle of Cedar Creek.

Operative treatment secured union better than nonoperative treatment (p = 0.01).