Other powerful unions in Democratic politics are part of the effort including the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
Most protectionism in America is the result of organized interest groups and powerful unions trying to prop up inefficient practices.
South Korea President Kim Dae Jung is taking care with industrial restructuring rather than confronting powerful unions opposed to mass layoffs.
In addition, the poll showed that the mayor's support among whites is slipping, and that Mr Ford may be taking from him the backing of some of Memphis's powerful unions.
Miner, who doesn't ask for aid or a bailout, says she wants to work with the governor to come up with more cost-reduction measures, many of which were won by politically powerful unions in Albany.
How about the fact that powerful unions have driven up wages and benefits and pension plans to the point where they've placed many U.S. workers out of the market and made foreign labor more attractive in comparison?
For much of the last century they were coddled by protectionism, or over-regulation, or both, during which time they acquired powerful unions and high cost structures, and took on enormous long-term commitments to cover their workers' retirements.
Mr. Murphy, a former aide to city Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, has the support of some of the city's largest and most politically powerful unions, such as 1199 SEIU, which represents health-care workers, and the Hotel Trades Council.
Does Hartmut Mehdorn, the head of Deutsche Bahn whose contract ends in 2008, really want to saddle his successor with the kind of problems faced by Mr Obermann at Deutsche Telekom: shareholder pressure on one side and powerful unions, plus a legacy of state ownership on the other?
EU's powerful staff unions, which have gone on strike to block even the discussion of reforms.
The powerful teachers unions hate the tests because they enable newspapers to print school league tables.
But Democrats, backed by powerful labor unions like the Teamsters, succeeded in passing the measure in the Senate.
If the government is serious about reform, it will sooner or later run up against Italy's powerful trade unions.
The CTU has long been one of the most powerful municipal unions in a city dominated by unionized public employees.
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The country's powerful trade unions are fighting wage cuts, so firms are trying to boost productivity or expand production abroad.
Throughout the region, wages and working conditions are still largely set by centralised agreements among powerful trade unions, employers and the state.
But convincing the powerful Michigan unions that nobody is going to touch their contracts is a tough sell - as well it should be.
Athens, however, faces long-term challenges to push through unpopular reforms in the face of widespread unrest from the country's powerful labor unions and the general public.
These cities have powerful taxi unions that work hand-in-hand with city governments to step up fares continuously in exchange for letting the city set the price.
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She took on Britain's then-powerful labor unions and whittled the size of the state through sweeping privatizations and the closure of unprofitable state-owned enterprises, from coal mines to steel plants.
But she fails to apply the same criticisms to the powerful teachers unions, about whom all of the above could be said, and who lobby state governments for centralized rules that favor their members.
Powerful labor unions and their Democratic allies believe such measures impose unfair financial burdens on workers and that Republican efforts against collective bargaining are veiled attempts to gut labor unions, a traditionally Democratic constituency.
With so much common ground on policy, the race became a duel over character issues as well as a referendum on who was closer to politically powerful municipal unions often criticized for landing generous raises and benefits.
Local governments and school districts blame programs and costs required by Albany, often won by politically powerful public worker unions, for many of them facing insolvency.
Trade unions (including the powerful and backward-looking teachers' unions), who raised as much as a third of his campaign war-chest, have been agitating for long-delayed pay rises ever since the night of November 3rd.
There was a partial response to the strike in West Bengal, where unions are powerful and enjoy clout.
On the government side, unions were powerful, price and wage controls were a reality, and tax rates were high.
And, crucially, Mr Walker had exempted the most powerful public-sector unions, the police and firemen, from his new laws.
Pay settlements of 3% -plus demanded by powerful German industrial trades unions, principally the engineering union IG Metall, are a huge new threat to stable prices in the principal anti-inflation European economy.
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