Example sentences of "workers ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Round the corner was Dixon 's Blazes , a blast furnace , and the Workers ' Circle , where dreams of socialist emancipation were debated — dreams which were soon to fade for Glasser . |
| 2 | The Workers ' Party still fails to command many votes in elections north or south of the border . |
| 3 | One of these was James Larkin 's Irish Transport and General Workers ' Union , the ITGWU . |
| 4 | Of the smaller parties , the Workers ' Party was the most decisive in favouring the change . |
| 5 | The fact that a prominent member of the current community council and an integrated education supporter was a member of official Sinn Fein , the Workers ' party , appeared to figure in the reasoning , as this party has always been suspected to be an anti-clerical and secularist force . |
| 6 | Mr Scargill 's election to Parliament would acutely embarrass Mr Kinnock , but would pave the way for the NUM 's merger with the Transport and General Workers ' Union . |
| 7 | The Transport and General Workers ' Union , which has the largest block vote ( 1.3m ) , is abstaining . |
| 8 | The red silk skirt with workers ' heads and a gold top that goes with it , both cut from silk bought in Soviet Central Asia , would cost about 1,000 roubles ( the average Soviet wage is 200 roubles a month ) or £700 in London . |
| 9 | Ron Todd , the general secretary of the transport workers ' union , said that today 's vote on the multilaterist nuclear defence policy would not yield the ‘ massive and overwhelming ’ majority predicted by right-wingers , and he warned that party leaders could not expect everybody to ‘ goose-step ’ in the same direction once the policy had been carried . |
| 10 | LABOUR 'S policy review was a symbol of the party renewing itself and becoming again a force for change , Tom Sawyer , deputy general secretary of Nupe , the public sector workers ' union , said at the start of four days of debate on the review reports . |
| 11 | Supporting the leadership , Garfield Davies , general secretary of the shop workers ' union Usdaw , said delegates should not forget the objective was to create a nuclear-free world , not just a nuclear-free Britain . |
| 12 | Ron Todd , Transport and General Workers ' Union general secretary , was applauded as he reaffirmed his union 's commitment to unilateralism . |
| 13 | Last night , speaking in Brighton , Jack Adams , a national officer of the transport workers ' union , said directors had warned that , although they had no plans to shut Dagenham , employees themselves could close it if their work record did not improve . |
| 14 | That much of the population could not see the superiority of their society did not deter them : a workers ' uprising was crushed , the Wall was built , travel was extremely limited , all criticism rigorously suppressed . |
| 15 | WITH ITS power and prestige slipping away and its leaders calling desperately for unity , 72 per cent of Polish Communists have voted to find a new name for their party , the Polish United Workers ' Party . |
| 16 | At the same time , there are reports that workers ' militias had been used to cordon off streets during the demonstration in Leipzig on Monday night when some 10,000 people marched through the streets chanting ‘ Gorby , Gorby ’ and calling for the legalisation of the opposition group New Forum . |
| 17 | Workers ' militias — factory workers who are supposed to defend the Socialist system against its enemies — are reportedly also being trained in various parts of the country to control demonstrations and arrest supporters of the opposition . |
| 18 | Or , in the case of the GMB general workers ' union , backing an alternative federal grouping of ethnic minority organisations . |
| 19 | The miners ' strike in July showed how quickly workers ' discontent can erupt , take organised and radical form , and acquire leaders . |
| 20 | I suppose he had forgotten that when Bill Jordan , president of the engineering workers ' union , asked him during the 1987 election campaign to announce then that he would hold a referendum on unilateralism after the election , he declined and replied that people would come round to it once they understood . |
| 21 | For example , Ron Todd of the Transport and General Workers ' Union blamed the systematic bias and ignorance of the courts , and the new freedom to dismiss strikers granted by this Government , for the failure of the dock strike which was called by his union this summer . |
| 22 | Ron Todd , general secretary of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said they found in this year 's dock strike that some judges had changed little since the days of the Tolpuddle Martyrs or Taff Vale . |
| 23 | Bill Morris , of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , also blamed government neglect of public services for the tragedies at Lockerbie , Clapham and Zeebrugge . |
| 24 | Car workers ' unions are today expected to demand a wage rise of at least 10 per cent for the Ford motor company 's 31,000 hourly paid workers , when negotiations open in London . |
| 25 | AS DELEGATES were preparing for the congress of the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party which begins today , two of the most conservative factions yesterday issued an open challenge to the party 's reformist leadership . |
| 26 | For similar reasons , conservatives are also reluctant to disband the discredited Workers ' Guard . |
| 27 | Similarly , he used his connections with the promotion of adult education in the Workers ' Educational Association ( WEA ) and the Extra-Mural Department of London University to establish a joint and full-time crash course for a Diploma in International Affairs in the London Institution of World Affairs , of which he was the president until his death . |
| 28 | They support Cory Aquino ; but the barefoot health workers ' small supply of free drugs has been curtailed by her administration . |
| 29 | But Garfield Davies , general secretary of the shop workers ' union USDAW , said non-payment campaigners were giving false hope to the vulnerable . |
| 30 | AN AMBULANCE workers ' union leader yesterday accused Kenneth Clarke , the Secretary of State for Health , of intransigence , as union officials prepared for today 's meeting at Acas . |