Sentence examples for union monopoly from inspiring English sources

American and European labor unions have been pressing for years to communicate more directly with China's state-run union monopoly and the country's Communist Party leaders.

"Chinese labor law establishes a system of trade union monopoly, outside which workers may not organize legally," Mr. Somavia said, adding that he would push for change while also working with the government on less contentious issues like workplace safety.

"The withdrawal of this proposed executive order is an outright victory for American taxpayers, construction workers and business, and a repudiation of big labor's attempt to buy with political contributions, a union monopoly of Government construction projects," said Bruce Josten, senior vice president for the United States Chamber of Commerce.

Today, they're taking on the Western Union monopoly of international money transfers.

Yet in areas where strikes are deemed ruinous or unacceptable, union monopoly power still thrives.

The early literature examined the link between union density or coverage as indicators of the degree of union monopoly power in the market and unemployment (and inflation), and adverse union effects were reported from the outset.

So did Murdoch, in his liberation of British newspapers from war with the pressroom unions, and by wresting away the print unions' monopoly of access to computer technology.

For too long, he said, the labor unions' monopoly on construction jobs has locked out the poorest workers, while union wages have reduced the number of workers who can be hired.

State collective bargaining agreements give unions monopoly power; state legislative maneuvers, often backed by pro-union legislators, sweeten the deals already made.

With no such inhibitions, Mr Howard's government last year brought in an industrial-relations law that paved the way to end the maritime union's monopoly.

They make the argument at greater length in the paper: "Faced with a trade union exercising monopoly power and raising the wages of its members, most economists would advocate removing or limiting the union's ability to exercise this monopoly power, and that is certainly the right policy in some circumstances.