Sentence examples for throwing labor from inspiring English sources

If the Senate couldn't confirm the president's nominees and the body lost its quorum, the NLRB wouldn't be able to issue decisions, throwing labor disputes across the country into limbo.

But John Sweeney and other union leaders instead threw labor's institutional weight behind the protests.

Referring to the subcommittee vote, a House Democratic aide who requested anonymity for professional reasons said, "They threw labor under the bus and gave them the middle finger".

The possibility of a Hoffa presidency has thrown organized labor into a tumult.

Those murdered in Tiananmen Square were only a tiny fraction of the people who have been arrested and thrown into labor camps over the past forty-odd years.

Throw in labor and overhead costs, and there isn't much left over.

A city union member will have a seat on the oversight board — a bone thrown to labor since several jobs will be lost as redevelopment dries up, City Manager Scott Ochoa said at the meeting.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's push for legislation that would enable the U.S. to strike a major trade deal with 11 other countries has gotten tangled in a debate over Malaysia's record on slave labor, throwing up a last-minute legislative obstacle.

And he hardly labored, throwing only 89 pitches.

"He was laboring, throwing nothing but bloopers and junk".

"I saw him in Pawtucket laboring, throwing 88 miles an hour tops, and searching for an out pitch and his command," the Astros scout Paul Ricciarini said.