"steady union" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a consistent and lasting relationship between people or groups. For example, "This steady union has been a source of success for the two companies."
By crisis, he means myriad setbacks, including a steady loss of union membership, frequent defeats in organizing drives and unions being forced to accept multiyear wage freezes.
With the steady decline in union membership -- only 13percentt of women and 16percentt of men are now represented by a union -- and the rise in households headed by women, the reluctance of women to bargain takes on even more significance.
In addition, the percentage of workers in unions remained steady at 13.9percentt, giving unions hope that they had arrested a steady decline in that percentage.
Led by the Service Employees International Union president, Andy Stern, the breakaway unions formed the rival Change to Win federation amid complaints that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. was not doing enough to organize new workers and halt the steady decline in union membership and influence.
But he sidestepped any mention of the steady decline in union membership under his tenure, as millions of manufacturing jobs have disappeared and businesses have grown more adept at fending off union organizers.
"There has been steady growth among union members in the public sector, but I'm a little bit shocked to see that the lines have actually crossed," said Randel K. Johnson, senior vice president for labor at the United States Chamber of Commerce.
In Los Angeles, parents aren't interested in protecting a bloated bureaucracy or preserving a steady flow of union dues.
But to those hoping to reverse the steady drop in union membership in the U.S., his plan didn't seem like much of a compromise at all.
But management was able to impose those cuts in part because of a deeper historical force at play: the long, steady decline of union membership within the American labor force.
In a telephone interview on Friday from the Netherlands, de Boer said the cycling union's steady and deliberate action could be taken as a good or bad sign for Contador.
