It is not unusual for faculty in business schools and other university programs, such as economics and hospitality management, to suggest that unions are "bad" and give such reasons as unions reduce efficiency, inhibit change, restrict employers' ability to manage the workforce and even that unions are sometimes connected with organized crime (references to Jimmy Hoffa's demise sometimes follow).
Your fiscal problems are too great to be solved solely by a tax increase, or by service cuts, layoffs, union givebacks, efficiencies or gimmicks.
A union-driven efficiency committee, a partnership between the singers and the orchestra, keeps track of — and protests — the waste and extravagance that are still the order of the day at the Met.
A version has been available in Japan since 2008 and Aston Martin enlisted one in its struggle to meet 2012 European Union fleet-efficiency standards, but the Toyota iQ is a late entry in the North American market.
The purpose of the CARE system is to provide a powerful tool which makes it possible to identify and quantify road safety problems throughout the European Union, evaluate the efficiency of road safety measures, determine the relevance of Community actions and facilitate the exchange of experience in this field.
The unions' dread of efficiency is as strong as their ties to the local Democrat leadership.
MR. BLOOMBERG -- He said he would work closely with the municipal unions to increase efficiency to help ease the city's budget strains.
A supposedly conservative view is that, with the help of special legal exemptions from antitrust laws and their ability to put workers on strike, labor unions harm economic efficiency by restraining competition in the labor market.
"There's a definite philosophical disagreement between the Republicans and Democrats about what unions do to the efficiency of government operations and whether unions have led to overcompensation for public workers".
He contended that a customs union works to increase efficiency in one way but decreases it in another.
