This is a more militant union that most public sector unions. These workers face on a daily basis far more difficult working conditions than the standard government employee. The workers as a group feel management is too heavy-handed. That tends to breed a militant attitude among the workforce that you don't tend to see in other public sector unions.
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It's one thing to support the Wright Amendment. It's another thing to support shutting down your home-district airport. What about the people who work at Dallas Love What about the people who travel from Dallas Love What about the companies that operate out of Dallas Love Her decision smacks of heavy-handed government at its absolute worst.
The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.
The heavy-handed part was telling us that we will kill ECOH and that we will hurt private industry in Rockford if we leave the ECOH coalition, ... I didn't think the School Board was in the business of subsidizing private industry.
This kind of heavy-handed behavior shows why Sudan was not the right country to hold the summit and also shows the president of Sudan isn't the correct person to lead the African Union.
She's done an OK job under the circumstances. She's had to deal with some pretty heavy-handed community stuff and a pretty heavy-handed council at times.
There are atheists and Christians, and there are people in both groups who are a little too heavy-handed.
The kind of heavy-handed intimidation by the Serb police is emblematic of the repressive nature of (Yugoslav President) Slobodan Milosevic's regime in Kosovo, which sparked the current crisis.
Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.
This sounds like more of the same from heavy-handed U.N. bureaucrats, ... Whether they call it a 'board' or a 'forum' it's clear that the ultimate goal of the U.N. is still to wrest control of the Internet.
Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
He may not be as heavy-handed with policy decisions. The outcomes of the meetings may be more democratic, at least for a time.
This blatant, heavy-handed action is only the latest outrage committed against Aung San Suu Kyi and other party leaders by Burmese authorities,
The Bush administration is certainly not the first administration to do this kind of thing, ... but they seem much more heavy-handed about it.
Education is one of the wisest investments we can make in America's future. The aid elimination provision is unfair and heavy-handed and should be taken off the books completely.
Being in the software business, I have no problem with licenses and no problem with paying for licenses. But I think that this is a real heavy-handed approach.