Featherbedding

Let us look at the class of people who have the weak moral fibre sufficient to indulge in featherbedding. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Abramoff described his practice of "featherbedding" - making job offers to chiefs of staff in Congress. ❋ Dana Milbank (2012)

I'm afraid I don't quite know what the $20 million is that you're referring to, and I certainly don't support "featherbedding", since I'm no friend of large, inefficient corporate consultancies. ❋ Glyn Moody (2007)

I'll give you a hint: look up the term "featherbedding". ❋ Kinkyturtle (2005)

"These 'featherbedding' provisions sought by Local 63 OCU are unacceptable, and they run counter to the employers 'efforts to reach fair and reasonable contracts that provide for staffing based on business requirements and that reflect today's economic conditions." ❋ Unknown (2010)

I don't know of anyone "featherbedding" their nests and if they were - they chose a pretty bad place to do it considering the brutal hours and relatively low pay that people get working for the NDP. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I've been in such a gathering this week -- just days apart from visiting yours -- where the participants slept on featherbedding in five-star hotels rather than in pup tents on the sidewalk. ❋ Jim Wallis (2011)

Sounds like featherbedding, but no one is going to speak up with the heat always dialed in to a comfortable 70 degrees at the PPA. ❋ Michael Martin (2010)

With Amtrak now the key to the President's rail program, a review of Amtrak's recent performance reveals that this "transformational" event will take place upon a foundation of epic failure, gross mismanagement, and union featherbedding. ❋ Ronald Utt (2011)

The California experience proves that nothing short of school choice (competition) can possibly correct the waste and featherbedding in the public schools. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Tolerance is dismissed as an indulgence and a lack of moral standards; progress is trashed as an opportunity for social engineering and a cloak to enhance state power and also as featherbedding the feckless, undeserving poor. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Sure the labour practices were marked by a lot of featherbedding and there was probably more capital investment than was strictly necessary, but the end result was a superb electricity supply. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rather, they're seen as protecting featherbedding, absentee employees, not to mention those who are drunk or abusive. ❋ Mitch Rofsky (2010)