Sentence examples for union background from inspiring English sources

"She has a legislative background, a union background," he added.

She said that given her union background, "very little bothers me".

Similarly, says Paula B. Voos, a labor economist and professor at Rutgers, coming from a union background fosters a natural bond.

Martin's union background gave him his first major break at Westminster when Denis Healey, then Labour's deputy leader, made him his parliamentary private secretary in 1981.

Coming from a union background, I would say that the best wage is one negotiated between workers (and their unions) and factories.

Only eight of the candidates in the 100 target seats come from a union background, compared to 14 out of the 69 new MPs in 1992.

Stonewall's chief executive, Ben Summerskill, acknowledges that in recent years, MPs with trade union backgrounds like John Prescott or Alan Johnson have been prepared to assert that equality means equality, which simply wasn't the case in the 1960s.

In recent years at the powerful Writers Guild of America West, an aggressive slate of fresh leaders headed by the union's president, Patric Verrone, ousted an executive director who had been regarded as too sympathetic to the companies, installed new managers with labor union backgrounds and resolved to re- establish what they saw as their guild's eroding power.

Today many Labour MPs come from trade union backgrounds or have close links to unions.

She lacks Lula's faith, rooted in his trade-union background, in his ability to negotiate a deal, whatever the circumstances.

Mauroy's trade-union background and old-fashioned socialism did much to sustain Mitterrand's credibility in campaigning on a platform of 110 Propositions for France.