featherbedding

featherbedding
    n 1: the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an
         employer to hire more workers than are required
    

28 Moby Thesaurus words for "featherbedding":
      bedizenment, duplication, duplication of effort, embellishment,
      expletive, extravagance, fat, filling, frill, frills, frippery,
      gingerbread, luxury, needlessness, ornamentation, overadornment,
      overlap, padding, payroll padding, pleonasm, prolixity, redundance,
      redundancy, superfluity, superfluousness, tautology,
      unnecessariness, verbosity