Sentence examples for vigorous union from inspiring English sources

The panel meeting has become an annual spectacle that draws hundreds of protesters and vigorous union opposition.

Some union leaders had characterized the race as between a candidate who would focus on organizing — Ms. Henry — and one who would focus on keeping S.E.I.U. as the nation's most politically vigorous union — Ms. Burger.

Black officers also have complaints over what they see as unequal outcomes of the department's disciplinary and assignment policies, and the lack of access by minority officers to vigorous union representation -- all similar to complaints among black officers in New York.

Today Jamaica, like the few other genuine democracies in the third world, is attempting to do what history has so far found to be impossible: develop a successful capitalist economy after first embracing freedom, allowing a vigorous trade union movement and guaranteeing universal adult suffrage.

Corporate America has mounted vigorous anti-union campaigns, making it harder for workers to collectively bargain for decent wages and benefits.

Ronald Reagan's firing of the striking air-traffic controllers in 1981 was only the most public example of a vigorous anti-union backlash that continues to the present day.

The city's transit workers ratified a new three-year contract yesterday by a 60percentt majority, despite a vigorous campaign by union dissidents to have the contract rejected.

Carries as baggage: She is likely to face intense business opposition because she is a vigorous advocate for unions.

Carries as baggage: She is likely to face intense business opposition because she is a vigorous advocate for unions who has aggressively supported the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation that business stoutly opposes.

Unions were vigorous opponents of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the administration's first and largest such pact.

The union's "vigorous opposition" to contraction, Beeston added, was inconsistent with discussions the two sides held last spring and summer.