Example sentences of "unions and [noun] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industry-wide wage bargaining between national trade unions and employers ' associations , whether conducted across an entire industry or , as in West Germany , more partially for the regional sub-divisions of an industry , has been the prevailing practice in most Western European countries . |
| 2 | Their outstanding feature is the conduct of negotiations , not initially through the individual trade unions and employers ' associations themselves but rather via the central confederations to which they are affiliated . |
| 3 | The boost to their growing jurisdiction came when the Royal Commission on Trades Unions and Employers ' Associations ( Donovan Commission ) of 1968 approved the extension of tribunal jurisdiction ( Donovan , 1968 ) . |
| 4 | Judges chaired commissions or committees concerned with , among other things , Justices of the Peace ( 1946–8 ) , medical partnerships ( 1948 ) , police conditions of service ( 1948–9 ) , the industrial health services ( 1949–50 ) , State immunities ( 1949–51 ) , taxation of profits and income ( 1951–5 ) , marriage and divorce ( 1951 ) , dock workers ( 1955–6 ) , the interception of communications ( 1957 ) , prison conditions ( 1957–8 ) , the working of the monetary system ( 1957–9 ) , legal education for African students ( 1960 ) , security in the public service ( 1961 ) , the security service and Mr Profumo ( 1963 ) , children and young persons in Scotland ( 1961–4 ) , jury service ( 1963–5 ) , the port transport industry ( 1964–5 ) , pay for dock workers ( 1966 ) , tribunals of enquiry ( 1966 ) , ‘ D ’ notices ( 1967 ) , the age of majority ( 1965–7 ) , trade unions and employers ' associations ( 1965–8 ) , Scottish inshore fisheries ( 1967–70 ) , the constitution ( 1969–73 ) , one-parent families ( 1969–74 ) , the adoption of children ( 1969–72 ) , contempt of court ( 1974 ) , defamation ( 1975 ) , and the Brixton disorders ( 1981 ) . |
| 5 | No wonder that , in 1968 , a member of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers ' Associations wrote : |
| 6 | Parliament and party became increasingly irrelevant , and trade unions and employers ' associations came into positions of political prominence . |
| 7 | Indeed , " the main theme " of the book is the argument that the triangular pattern of cooperation between government and the two sides of industry built up a new form of harmony which lasted until the mid-sixties and led to the trade unions and employers ' associations being elevated to a new sort of status so that they became " governing institutions " sharing some of the political power and attributes of the state itself . |
| 8 | In many societies , but more particularly in modern societies , there are numerous different centres of political thought and experience : educational institutions of various types ; party organizations ( including party schools and research institutes ) ; the mass media ; more or less official ‘ think tanks ’ ; the central offices of trade unions and employers ' associations ; international agencies ; and a considerable number of private associations devoted to political research and education , some of which have grown out of social movements and remain more or less closely connected with them . |
| 9 | the interrelationships between trade unions and employers ' associations ; |
| 10 | focuses on the role which unions and employers ' associations play in hindering or facilitating government economic policy . |
| 11 | The first part of the project discovers which organisations — including firms , government departments , trade unions and employers ' associations — play a part in discussion about industrial policy . |
| 12 | The most important expression of this view was the development in many countries of a broad political consensus , embracing the major parties of both left and right , and subscribed to by trade unions and employers ' associations . |
| 13 | A notorious illustration of this assumption was the failure of the influential Donovan Report on trade unions and employers ' associations to address public sector industrial relations at all ( Donovan 1968 ) . |
| 14 | The corporate ascendancy of the trade unions and employers ' groups , with their many offshoots in the world of the quangos , was dismantled after the 1970s . |
| 15 | Covers industrial relations , trade unions and employers ' organisations , basic labour rights , training , working conditions and women workers . |
| 16 | Centralised negotiations between the union and employer confederations led to ‘ frame agreements ’ which then provided guidelines for industry-wide negotiations between the national unions and employers ' organisations . |
| 17 | In ‘ corporatist ’ countries , for instance Austria and Sweden , economic decisions ( on such diverse matters as taxes , the welfare state , training and wage negotiations ) have frequently been the outcome of formal or informal negotiations between government and non-government institutions , especially unions and employers ' organisations . |
| 18 | In this sense collective bargaining is not only confined to formalised , written agreements between trade unions and employers ' bodies , it can also include informal , collective dealings and negotiations at local level , both on wage and non-wage issues , between managements and works councils or similar bodies in countries like Austria and West Germany , even though in the latter country collective bargaining and the co-determination mechanisms are supposed to be kept separate . |
| 19 | In Chapter 2 it was argued that some of the most striking features of the post-war development of the British state , at least until the late 1970s , could be explained quite effectively in terms of ‘ corporate bias ’ , that is moves away from the formal structures of democratic ( electoral ) representation towards the representation of major corporate interest groups ( such as the trade unions and employers ' organizations ) , as mediated through the agency of the state itself . |
| 20 | In preparation for the reform the government had on Jan. 8 signed with representatives of the trade unions and employers ' organizations a six-month agreement " on preserving social peace " , whereby salaries were to increase by 270 leva ( US$90 ) and pensions by 182 leva a month . |
| 21 | The NUS and several other student unions have also taken up the campaign and it is hoped that the campaign will extend beyond the student movement to trade unions and women 's groups . |
| 22 | The ‘ wing men ’ comprise one person nominated by trade unions and employees ' federations and one person nominated by the CBI and various employers ' federations . |
| 23 | Angry trades unions and pensioners ' action groups launched their own ‘ national charter ’ calling for trustees to be elected by scheme members . |
| 24 | On economic development , we have failed to pursue the policies of partnership between Government and industry which are commonplace elsewhere in Europe and which involve not only management but trade unions and workers ' representatives in a much more positive way than anything that has happened under this Government . |