Sentence examples for union down from inspiring English sources

The regulations, first announced in June, aim to ensure that unionization elections are held within 21 days of workers petitioning to have a union, down from what the agency says is a median of 38 days.

Today, 1 out of 13 private sector workers is in a union, down from about 1 in 4 in the early 1970s.

In the total labour force, only 12.5% of workers are in a union, down from about a third in the 1950s (see chart below).

They also claim that closing the union down wouldn't change much, since the University would take over many of its services and facilities.

I'm thinking in his first season in Union, down in what's now known as the Championship and – I think – the second half of his first in the Premiership.

The problem is that about 33percentnt of the workforce are now in a union, down from 67percentnt in 1977; most people aren't members.

Last year 8.2 percent of private-sector workers were in unions, down from 35percentt in the 1950's.

But labor's survival in the private sector is more problematic — just one in 14 private-sector workers are in unions, down from two in five a half-century ago.

2010 marked a new low with 11.9% of workers represented by unions, down from 20% in 1983.

After all, only 11percentt of American workers are in unions (down from nearly a third of workers 50 years ago), and only 18percentt have pensions (as recently as 1998, more than half of Americans over age 60 received pension payments).

A spokesperson for one of the unions downing tools in the second London-wide Tube strike in as many months has refused to rule out further 48-hour action within weeks of tomorrow's planned strike.