Sentence examples for union responsible from inspiring English sources

If the union, the Police Benevolent Association, challenges his right to withhold the pay without its ratification, he said, he would lay off at least 207 officers and hold the union responsible for it.

Recommended online source: Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper, July 20, 2004 (//hrw.org/english/docs/2004/07/19/darfur9096.html) GROUP SIX:- African Union: Responsible for investigating the African Union and its role in the Darfur conflict.

An ongoing strike at a Detroit water waste treatment plant has led to infighting among different factions of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the government union responsible for workers in the city's water department.

The Poor Law Amendment of 1834 standardized the system of poor relief throughout Britain, and groups of parishes were combined into unions responsible for workhouses.

Her government enacted a series of measures designed to undermine the unions' ability to organize and stage strikes, including laws that banned the closed shop, required unions to poll their members before ordering a strike, forbade sympathy strikes, and rendered unions responsible for damages caused by their members.

Some attendees spoke about their frustration with the state of the economy and the way politicians have held unions responsible for it.

The European Union is responsible for generating power; NATO is responsible for security.

In a joint letter released Tuesday, they urged the European Union commissioner responsible for taxation, Algirdas Semeta, to work to get all 27 members of the European Union to sign up.

The parliament has to approve the choice of commission president and can dismiss the entire commission, but not individual commissioners.The European Court of Justice, based in Luxembourg, acts as the EU's supreme court in areas for which the union is responsible (which does not include criminal law, for example).

There was, for instance, Paul Buglioli, a union timekeeper responsible for overseeing work hours, who earned $474,947 last year because of this contractual quirk — and despite his testimony to the commission that he didn't "physically check to see that someone who is signed in is actually present on the pier".

To date, the administration has given about 30 insurers, employers and union plans, responsible for covering about one million people, one-year waivers on the new rules that phase out annual limits on coverage for limited-benefit plans, also known as "mini-meds".