Sentence examples for unions control from inspiring English sources

The burden of enforcing it falls on highway contractors, but the unions control the hiring halls that supply the workers.

That is why, for trade unions, control of the labour supply in an industry or across society has always been the core of our mission, to ensure that workers get a fair share of the wealth they create.

Mr Fox does not occupy such a position, which is why his stab at reforming the labour code, in 2003, ended in such a fiasco.The still unreformed code gives some unions control over hiring, firing and transfers.

At a time when relations between Labour and union bosses are strained, he will need to win some union support because the unions control 50 per cent of the votes at the conference, with the other half held by party members.

At the moment, affiliated unions control a third of the votes in Labour leadership elections as part of an electoral college system, last used in 2010 when Mr Miliband was elected.

My own theory has long been that politicians exist to spend money, thus explaining government's consistent growth, but an excellent new book – Shadowbosses: Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind – by Mallory and Elizabeth Factor has forced me to rethink my position.

He also faulted the firm's monitors for not noting that the labor union at a Shanghai garment factory was, like most Chinese unions, controlled by management.

The new regime pushed a series of sweeping changes, including banning unions, controlling wages, banning political parties and removing agricultural subsidies.

As union membership continues to decline nationwide, Hollywood remains a bastion of organized labor, with unions controlling nearly every aspect of production, including the director who calls "action" and the truck drivers who transport equipment to and from sets.

He analyzes the structural weaknesses in the market for union control and the legal factors inhibiting a union takeover market.

Boris Johnson also warned against a "1970s blend of divisiveness and business-bashing and union control".