Sentence examples for slashed labor from inspiring English sources

"Manufacturers have drastically slashed labor costs, but those expenditures are still dragging down profits," said Hiroaki Muto, a senior economist at Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management in Tokyo.

Notably, it underplays the impact of globalization, which intensified competition and spurred businesses to slash labor costs.

Maybe Cerberus has a foolproof plan to slash labor and other costs and restore Chrysler to profitability.

Worse, its largest supplier, Delphi, is in bankruptcy and seems headed for a showdown with the United Auto Workers union over its plan to drastically slash labor costs.

United Airlines' parent company UAL posted a $274 million third-quarter loss Thursday and reiterated the need to slash labor costs again soon as record fuel prices and low industrywide fares hinder its efforts to leave bankruptcy.

US Airways Group's unionized flight attendants ratified a second round of cost cuts Friday in a last-ditch bid to slash labor costs and keep the airline on track to emerge from bankruptcy in March.

Union leaders remain uneasy about the proposal by Tilton's predecessor Jack Creighton Jack Creighton to slash labor costs by $1.5 billion annually, in a bid to make United more cost-efficient and competitive; but labor reps appeared to be pleased by the new CEO's diplomacy and comments in a brief courtesy meeting.

First, he says, you'd have to automate watering and trimming, slashing labor costs.

Small businesses don't have the luxury of hoarding cash and slashing labor stock.

The union says Verizon is trying to slash labor costs regardless of whether that would hurt customers; the company says it must cut costs given the declining importance of traditional landline phones in the face of cellular devices.

Last year, Delta provided the financially strapped Pinnacle, then based in Memphis, Tennessee — and now in Minneapolis — with $74.3 million in financing and agreed to strengthen its fleet with fuel-efficient, 76-seat Bombardier CRJ-900 NextGen large regional jets — on the condition that Pinnacle slash its labor costs.