Example sentences of "[prep] worker ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of France , Sellier ( 1973 ) has suggested that the tendency towards workers ' organisations formed on the basis of craft unionism was hampered by the lack of a manpower surplus as a result of an early decline in birth rates . |
| 2 | On the very day of the Manifesto a central strike committee in the capital proclaimed itself the St Petersburg Soviet ( Council ) of Workers ' Deputies . |
| 3 | On the very day of the Manifesto a central strike committee in the capital proclaimed itself the St Petersburg Soviet ( Council ) of Workers ' Deputies . |
| 4 | The organizers had invited representatives of the rival Yedinstvo Internationalist Movement [ described on p. 36855 as the " Inter-Front " group ] and the Gagauz Khalky movement [ see p. 37047 ] , and of workers ' committees in Tiraspol . |
| 5 | The latter would work as before , but under the control of workers ' institutions . |
| 6 | Evaluations may also be made of the whole work group so that judgements are made of workers ' attitudes and performance at both levels . |
| 7 | From the 1880s thousands of activists began to establish direct contact with workers on the factory floor and acquired detailed knowledge of workers ' conditions and grievances . |
| 8 | It issued a strike threat in support of demands for rises in pensions and wages , a programme for dealing with unemployment and in defence of workers ' interests in the context of privatization . |
| 9 | But despite last night 's developments , Mrs Thatcher is still likely to be in a minority of one — both on completion date for monetary union and on her continued opposition to the European Social Charter of workers ' rights . |
| 10 | She had already found herself in isolation over progress to monetary union and the endorsement of a social charter of workers ' rights , and it became clear that the new European Community order would be built on an even closer alliance of France and West Germany . |
| 11 | We can agree with him therefore that the Pioneers were wrong in their view that the abolition of workers ' rights , expressed as a bonus to labour , was a misdirection of the Movement — but wrong only because there was then no other direction for it to take . |
| 12 | I also think , on er sort of workers ' rights , I mean if you know the person that 's made it , like a local butcher , I would trust more to make I would trust more than . |
| 13 | We talked yesterday about a lot about Europe about the importance of workers ' rights in Europe , but here we can expand upon this . |
| 14 | The issue of workers ' rights found expression in a Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers ( pp. 36668 ; 36985 ) which was resolutely opposed by the United Kingdom alone , but which received , in a modified form , the assent of all other heads of state at the Strasbourg summit on Dec. 8-9 , 1989 ( see pp. 37132-33 ) . |
| 15 | By a nearly three-to-one majority the congress on June 15 passed a resolution declaring that the CPSU could no longer be considered the champion of workers ' rights , and was losing its authority . |
| 16 | Twelve members of the European Community moved towards the standardization of workers ' rights as contained in the Social Chapter of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 17 | This creeping destruction of workers ' rights has spread rapidly from journalists to printers , from tanker drivers to docks , telecom managers to mines , and lecturers to insurance staff . |
| 18 | In fact , it is so proud that it now boasts at a European level of the cheap U K labour costs and the lack of workers ' rights . |
| 19 | Proposals on the minimum wage and protection of workers ' rights ( through endorsement of the EC 's Social Chapter for example ) if implemented might have helped prevent exploitation of the " peripheral " workforce although the market advantage of the knowledge workers would continue . |
| 20 | Article 2 , which sets out the general areas of workers ' rights , simply spells out many rights that already exist in law , or have been present in well-unionised work places for years before Thatcherism . |
| 21 | Marx assumed that the capitalist has access to power because of his position as owner of the ‘ means of production ’ and therefore ‘ buyer ’ of workers ' services . |
| 22 | ‘ True ’ workers ' control will never spring into existence in fully fledged form and socialists must fight , within the present society , for democratic measures which can help to ‘ de-mystify ’ management and raise radical questions concerning the organisation of work and the goals of production , whether these measures involve the accountability of managerial agents or the promotion of workers ' plans . |
| 23 | Without this " attraction " it was hardly to be expected that rural labour markets could clear themselves through falling wages , since they were already so close to the level of subsistence that a further lowering would have reduced the productivity of labour via its depressing effect on the calorific value of workers ' diets which would no longer have sustained the same work effort . |
| 24 | Economic consequences were particularly severe for countries which were forced to bear the costs of accommodating large numbers of refugees , such as Jordan [ see p. 37639 ] and Turkey [ see p. 37641 ] , or suffer the loss of workers ' remittances , such as Egypt , Pakistan , India , Bangladesh and the Philippines . |
| 25 | A report in Le Monde of Sept. 20 disclosed that India faced the loss of workers ' remittances from Iraq and Kuwait totalling $400 million , and would lose exports to Iraq and Kuwait worth around $185 million , while an oil price increase of $3.00 per barrel would add $1,700 million to its oil import bill . |
| 26 | While all the studies used for this paper do not attain this ideal , the effort to articulate material that is not readily available through more conventional studies of workers ' images of society , for instance , may serve to make some point in the social landscape between the ‘ centres ’ of workers ' and managers ' worlds and that of social scientists . |
| 27 | The growing level of investment prevented a fall in the rate of growth of output despite a tendency in the decade from the mid-fifties for the share of workers ' savings to rise — a development which restrained consumption growth . |
| 28 | In February 1990 the National Federation of Workers ' Unions of Benin ( Union nationale des syndicats des travailleurs du Bénin — UNSTB ) was weakened by the decision of the postal and telecommunications workers ' union to split from the UNSTB and declare itself autonomous ( the second defection after that of the Higher Education Union in August 1989 ) . |
| 29 | Phizacklea and Miles warn of the limits of any strategy premised on the assumption ( made in the 1970s by the TUC and the Labour Party ) that ‘ the way to eliminate working-class racism was to provide counter-arguments to common racist beliefs ’ , to push out of workers ' heads an ideological baggage primarily produced by the dominant class and replace it by ‘ the truth ’ . |
| 30 | These developments were to influence the form of workers ' struggles once full employment was achieved ( chapter 12 ) . |