Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] of [noun sg] unions " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1920s Preston , for example , electoral support for the party increased , not out of sympathy with the defeat of the general strike , but rather because , with a loosening of the hold of trade unions and mobilisation of female and neighbourhood support , the party turned to ‘ consumer-oriented statist policies ’ ( ibid. p 179 ) . |
| 2 | The neo-classical economists argued that it would do so and , therefore , that all Keynes had done in effect was to add a single assumption to the neo-classical system : the assumption that wages and prices were inflexible downwards because of the existence of trade unions and other restrictive practices ( which , of course , was well known anyway ) . |
| 3 | This is because of the structure of trade unions themselves in Britain . |
| 4 | In sections 2.2 and 2.3 , we outline the determinants of the demand for and the supply of labour and the factors which contribute to the determination of wages in the UK , including a discussion of the role of trade unions . |
| 5 | The first eight chapters principally concern comparative aspects of industrial relations in advanced , market-type economies in Western Europe , the USA , Japan and Australia although there is some discussion of the role of trade unions in communist countries and of the Yugoslav self-management system . |
| 6 | The fact is that all the examples adduced to support the proposition that there should be a qualitative — or ‘ radical ’ — extension of the role of trade unions into the management of the business employing their members fail at the crucial oint . |
| 7 | So far under this heading ‘ trade union and legislative development ’ , as under the earlier headings , the case effectively stated remains the case for extension , within the existing dispensation , of the role of trade unions . |
| 8 | In response , it was argued that the denigration of the role of trade unions was part of the Thatcher ethos of focusing on the individual rather than the collective . |
| 9 | So against the narrow focus of the impact of enterprise unions within their own firms we need to consider how far their achievements are filtered down to small firms where formal labour representation is minimal . |
| 10 | Any assessment of the impact of labour unions requires us to consider not only their influence on the wages and conditions of their members but also how this affects non-members in the same firm and labour in general . |
| 11 | In the end , the account in Chapter 3 of the pressures for change amounts to an effective review of the recognition of the right of trade unions to be fully informed and consulted , in good time , by management about its intentions where they will or might affect the interests of employees organised by unions ; and so may be said to provide a firm footing for the argument that the practice of providing full information and of engaging in full consultation should be extended and adopted generally , in order that unions may better consider , and act in pursuance of , those interests . |
| 12 | I turned to Jamie and then the girl , cleared my throat and said quite clearly : ‘ I did n't know if you two ever shared or , indeed , still do share , for that matter , for all that I know , at least mutually between yourselves but at any rate not including me — the misconception I once perchanced to place upon the words contained upon yonder sign , but it is a fact that I thought the ‘ union ’ referred to in said nomenclature delineated an association of working people , and it did seem to me at the time to be quite a socialist thing for the town fathers to call a street ; it struck me that all was not yet lost as regards the prospects for a possible peace or at the very least a cease-fire in the class war if such acknowledgements of the worth of trade unions could find their way on to such a venerable and important thoroughfare 's sign , but I must admit I was disabused of this sadly over-optimistic notion when my father-God rest his sense of humour-informed me that it was the then recently confirmed union of the English and Scottish parliaments the local worthies-in common with hundreds of other town councils throughout what had until that point been an independent realm — were celebrating with such solemnity and permanence , doubtless with a view to the opportunities for profit which this early form of takeover bid offered . ’ |