Sentence examples for urged labor from inspiring English sources

The Greens' energy and climate spokesman, Adam Bandt, today urged Labor to block the cuts.

He's urged Labor to take time on policy development and not get caught up in the 24-hour media cycle.

With two weeks until the election on July 2, Shorten urged Labor supporters to keep working until election day – even though Turnbull has said the Coalition would win.

Scott Morrison has urged Labor to back his budget savings and not "play politics" with the nation's banks after Moody's affirmed Australia's AAA rating.

The manufacturing union's national president, Andrew Dettmer, urged Labor to stand against the deal when the parliament votes on any legislation required to implement the FTA commitments.

As for Proposal 2, Mr. Snyder said he urged labor leaders not to place it on the ballot for the same reason he successfully urged Republican legislators not to introduce right-to-work legislation — the issues are highly divisive.

Earlier this week, John J. Sweeney, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., toured the Northwest with other labor officials urging labor activists to stick with Mr. Gore.

The confederation, based in Brussels, said it would urge labor federations around the world to focus on the issue of women's right to decent work.

He also said he expected to urge labor unions to reopen the contracts they have struck on behalf of public employees as a way to avoid or decrease layoffs.

With the number of union avoidance consultants exploding since the 1970s, labor unions have long urged the labor department to issue a tougher "persuader rule" because the 1959 law – the Landrum-Griffin Act – requires disclosure by any outside consultant that seeks "directly or indirectly to persuade employees" not to form a union.

He urged the labor board to exclude building superintendents and workers in the organization's training program from the vote.