Sentence examples for union franchise from inspiring English sources

If nothing else, the emergence of YSC Academy should help a Union franchise that's made the playoffs only once in its five years of existence and doesn't sign big-name European superstars like some of their MLS rivals.

Williams is yet to commit to the Roosters for next season and there is intense speculation he will accept an $1m offer to box instead of playing in this month's rugby league World Cup, and then sign for New Zealand rugby union franchise the Chiefs.

The political career which duly followed was characteristic of so many union franchises.

The Union Square franchise, which has been open for six months (a new outlet opened last week in the East Village), would seem to be a chocoholic's dream, cluttered with vats of molten chocolate, clear apothecary flasks of what appear to be cocoa powders and spices, and brown pipes overhead, which, despite signs indicating otherwise, are almost certainly not full of the stuff.

He has consulted for players' unions and franchises and for the Ken Burns documentary "Baseball".

He says the problems with this new "mega franchise" – union issues, infrastructure weaknesses and GTR's "human resource issues" – may be too much for GTR.

"Discussions are going on all the time between the union and the franchises," says Holland, "but nothing has been decided as yet".

But elsewhere on the franchise, unions fear that reforming the role of conductors on Southern could eventually mean fewer staff on trains, which could affect travellers with disabilities.

The question now whether the carrier, often crippled by indecision, will get so bogged down negotiating with creditors and labor unions that the franchise erodes beyond viability.

The RMT union called returning the franchise to the private sector "a national disgrace".

In New Zealand, only those eligible to play for the All Blacks, or Pacific Island players approved by the New Zealand Rugby Union, could join a franchise.