Sentence examples for slashed labour from inspiring English sources

The numbers dipped a little in 2001, but in 2005, in spite of a slashed Labour majority, 27.5 per cent of Labour MPs were women, 19.8 per cent of the total.

At the last election, the Conservatives slashed Labour's majority and took a third of the vote.

Furthermore, Southwest's labour force had become among the highest paid in the industry because many of Southwest's bankrupt competitors had been able to slash labour costs.

This time they got more than 20%, slashing Labour's majority and setting themselves up as serious contenders to win next time.

For, as the GMB's decision to slash Labour's funding underlines, these payments are not simply the bundling up of individual trade unionists' donations but rather lie in the gift of union bosses.

Yet there is a growing perception that the economic boom may be, in the words of Stephen Roach, the chief economist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, a "labour-crunch recovery", achieved mostly by companies slashing labour costs in order to restructure.If workers truly feel that they have gained little from the recovery, wage pressure should already be rising sharply.

Ed McKelvey, an economist at Goldman Sachs, worries that corporate-sector deflation could create wider deflation if firms try to slash labour costs.When Japan was the only country with deflation, one sure cure might have been a big devaluation of the yen to push up inflation.

However at Walkergate, in Newcastle, UKIP scored 27.2%, coming second and slashing Labour's margin of victory by two-thirds.

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

It revived during the recession as firms slashed their labour force, but that boost may not last.

And let it slash its labour force and renegotiate contracts.