But their efforts to reduce high budget deficits have already run up against strong union opposition.

The proposal died within a few months after union opposition.

The President's supporters remain confident, but they are wary about union opposition.

Senate Republicans, however, say the proposal is all but dead - an apparent victim of union opposition.

Despite union opposition, not all teachers think Prop 74 is a bad idea.

However, due to union opposition and public perception, operators were retained.

But his efforts soon fell victim to global recession and union opposition.

A proposal in the past to create a separate category for master teachers, with additional pay, died because of union opposition.

But the plan does not appear to face the sort of union opposition that he faced with the police merger.

And because of union opposition to weekend work, he said, factories have the shortest running times in Europe.