Example sentences of "[verb] worker ' [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The fourth Marxist strategy for explaining workers ' quiescence under advanced capitalism is much more materialistic , and in keeping with the central thrust of classical Marxism .
2 Despite Indonesia 's ratification of ILO Convention 98 — affirming workers ' rights to organise and wage bargain — virtually no unions exist in Indonesia independent of the Government controlled SPSI ( All Indonesia Workers Association ) .
3 The scribbling and spinning mills which were erected in the river valleys soon attracted workers ' houses alongside them .
4 It stresses that it wants to keep rules to a minimum , but argues that the Community has to do something to help its weaker parts adapt to a single market and to meet workers ' worries about what 1992 will mean for them .
5 But it would be quite wrong to ascribe the failure to take socialist transformation further at this stage by establishing workers ' control in the nationalised industries to ‘ betrayal ’ on the part of the parliamentary leadership .
6 It was called the Red and Green Alternative ( L'Alternative rouge et verte ) and described itself as " socialist , autogestionnaire ( an anarcho-syndicalist concept favouring workers ' self-rule or self-administration ) , feminist , ecologist and internationalist " .
7 In West Germany , pressures from the shopfloor movement were also to some extent incorporated by legislation ( in 1972 ) to extend the size and powers accorded to works councils in order to tackle workers ' grievances .
8 In West Germany , pressures from the shopfloor movement were also to some extent incorporated by legislation ( in 1972 ) to extend the size and powers accorded to works councils in order to tackle workers ' grievances .
9 Adopt , with the exception of Britain , a charter guaranteeing workers ' rights in the single European market to be created in 1992 .
10 Here some state intervention ( for example , to limit the working day across all firms ) may enhance labour productivity and boost workers ' demand for factory products .
11 Students ' action committees began coordinating demonstrations and contacting workers ' organizations .
12 By de-recognizing these representatives , employers can effectively ignore their obligations in Europe and thereby deny workers ' rights accepted as basic conditions in the eleven other member states .
13 In developments related to the presidential election , two ministers resigned from the government in the weeks leading up to the vote ; the leader of the Solidarity parliamentary group , the Citizens ' Parliamentary Faction ( OKP ) , Bronislaw Geremek , was replaced by Mieczyslaw Gil ; and , reflecting workers ' disenchantment with economic conditions , transport workers and miners staged several strikes .
14 Instead , amid a trenchant attack on the Government 's record , he dwelt on the vital role of trade unions in the fight to restore workers ' rights .
15 This Act of 1890 incorporated the ‘ Cross ’ and the ‘ Torrens ’ provisions , and empowered urban sanitary authorities to erect workers ' dwellings independently of clearance schemes .
16 In this position the forces of market competition impose a basically unitary practice of management onto individual enterprises , rendering workers ' participation and even workers ' cooperatives nugatory .
17 The Ministry of Finance has set aside funds to cover workers ' back pay and the mines ' debts .
18 A further strike was held on Aug. 27-30 in the key Brasov Tractor Enterprise to demand that Roman come to the city to discuss workers ' grievances .
19 At the same time there was an emphasis upon paternalism to enhance workers ' motivation and promote effective work performance which might otherwise have been impaired by this control strategy .
20 Moreover , the direct dependence of the war effort upon industrial output rendered workers ' resort to the strike weapon even more devastating than in peacetime , and from the summer of 1915 there was a resurgence of industrial stoppages .
21 Liberal democracy benefits capitalism not because capitalists control workers ' minds but because the industrial proletariat have rarely been a majority and are a now shrinking minority in advanced capitalist societies .
22 Also , whilst trade union leaders might want or need laws to strengthen procedures or ‘ conciliation ’ , this might well rebound , since the management side of the dispute supported by the misnamed National Association for Freedom ( NAF ) , will also be pressing for laws — but to curtail workers ' rights .
23 A COURT in Turin , the home of Italy 's Fiat group , declined at the weekend to try Fiat 's chief executive and three senior managers on charges of violating workers ' safety statutes , citing fears of an unspecified ‘ threat to public order ’ .
24 There was no immediate move to take into state ownership the major manufacturing industries , although there was a vigorous campaign to extend what was called workers ' control , i.e. the supervision of owners and managers by rank-and-file committees .
25 It is just that he will not apply it to future pension rights because he is not in the least interested in defending workers ' pension rights .
26 Unions are at a disadvantage here because the legal framework which established workers ' rights to form unions and engage in collective bargaining was essentially created by government .
27 The idea is to soothe workers ' fears about 1992 with a ’ solemn declaration ’ on their rights to social security , to join trade unions , to equal pay for equal work , to information on companies ' reorganisation plans .
28 Thus , conflict reflects workers ' coming to terms with the rational procedures of employment , and learning to fight back using employers ' own categories of time and money .
29 Congress the motion is calling for changes in the law to protect workers ' pension rights .
30 The COSHH regulations are designed to protect workers ' health by requiring substances in the workplace to be identified and the potential risks to health associated with the use of those substances to be assessed .
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