Sentence examples for union clout from inspiring English sources

This is useful because for all the effort unions throw at raising the minimum wage, laws for better pay have an awkward habit of undermining union clout.

Still, some of them wondered, how were those terms even on the table in an era of dwindling union clout, frozen pensions and unpaid furloughs?

The proposal comes as governors across the country — most of them Republican — have tried to take a hard line in rolling back pensions and union clout.

If, as some labor experts believe, the precipitous decline of union clout began in 1981, when Reagan dismissed striking air-traffic controllers, then Bush is indeed continuing Reagan's work with relish.

But in a sign of the teachers' union clout, the Republican-run Senate's own budget proposal, which was circulated for the first time on Monday, included similar language, making it more likely that such a provision would pass.

The US supreme court will consider limiting the power of government employee unions to collect fees from non-members in a case that labor officials say could threaten membership and further weaken union clout.

Its membership has slumped by a third in the past decade to 2.7m and its status as Germany's (and the western world's) biggest union is being challenged by a new service-sector union expected to embrace some 3.2m workers.As in other European countries, trade-union clout in Germany is generally weakening.

But, since then, union membership has declined — and, accordingly, so have unions' clout with employers.

But, since then, union membership has declined and, accordingly, so have unions' clout with employers.

In Britain more than half of public-sector workers but only about 15% of private-sector ones are unionised.There are three reasons for the public-sector unions' clout.

Rather, it is an entrenched official role on company works councils and in industry-wide collective bargaining, combined with a tradition of street protest, that gives the unions clout.