Sentence examples for tough union from inspiring English sources

MICHAEL GRAINGER hardly looks like a tough union type: soft-spoken, grey-haired, neatly dressed in a woollen sweater and khaki trousers.

As for the strike, a tough mayor and a tough union boss in a tough town is a good formula for the most famous of all labor showdowns.

Turnbull said the government had fought for its principles, including by taking two bills for tough union watchdogs to the double-dissolution election.

Re "A Tough Union Backs Change; Schools Benefit" (front page, July 31), about the Hartford school system: Apparently the teachers' unions have forgotten their proud traditions that encouraged independence, intellect and scholarship for students and teachers.

With many bus and subway passengers grumbling about a proposed fare increase, transportation authority management knew that getting the workers to accept a zero would show unmistakably that even this tough union recognized how serious the authority's budget situation was.

He was 98. Rarely in the spotlight, Mr. Moseley was a courtly Southerner who radiated innovative ideas and played what his admirers called exquisite managerial music in a world of perfectionist conductors, cantankerous performers, tough union negotiators, hard critics, demanding patrons and discriminating audiences.

That they are not already dealing with Germany's tough unions over layoffs is a testament to the much more flexible labor policies that have been embraced in the industry over the last decade, analysts said.

Tough unions and stringent labor laws are there to make sure they do.

Once in a while, though, the stars line up, even in big cities with tough unions and scads of low-income, minority pupils, to allow a worthy change in public education to originate within the system itself.

Even the toughest union leaders realise that something has to give.Battered in two state elections in January, the Social Democrats suffered again in local ones in Schleswig-Holstein on March 1st and 2nd.

Cormann told Radio National among the first to be introduced would be the bills to create two tougher union watchdogs, the Australian Building and Construction Commission and the Registered Organisations Commission, which triggered the double-dissolution election.