Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] ' union " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then merged his organisation with the British Seafarers to form the Amalgamated Marine Workers ' Union , enjoying a brief relationship with its leaders Lewis and Shinwell until 1925 when he abandoned them and threw in his lot with Wilson as an official of the NSFU . |
| 2 | The phone of another leading miners ' union official was also allegedly tapped in the late 1970s , as was the phone of a shop steward at the Ford plant at Dagenham . |
| 3 | The statement was immediately welcomed by the English National Farmers ' Union . |
| 4 | In the fading days of the postwar consensus , under the Labour patriarchy of that civil servants ' union boss Jim Callaghan , Apocalypse seemed more viable than pleasure . |
| 5 | He and Hayling emerged with £11,000 from Manchester City Council , £7,000 from the TGWU , £6,000 from SOGAT and a total of £10,650 from six others — National Union of Public Employees ( NUPE ) , £3,500 ; National Communications Union ( NCU ) , £2,000 ; National Union of Journalists ( NUJ ) , £2,000 ; National Association of Local Government Officers ( NALGO ) , £2,000 ; Association of Cinematograph , Television and Allied Technicians ( ACTT ) , £650 ; and the tiny TGWU-dominated Bakers ' Union , £500 . |
| 6 | Against the background of a broad spectrum of strikes organized on April 21 , April 27 and June 2 , 1989 , by the socialist General Workers ' Union ( Unión General de Trabajadores — UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( Comisiones Obreras — CCOO ) , the UGT executive decided for the first time on April 25 to give no recommendation to its members to vote for the PSOE in the European Parliament elections in June 1989 , on the grounds that a trade union could not be expected to support a government which pursued economic and social policies which were hostile to workers . |
| 7 | The congress agreed that PSOE members need no longer be affiliated to the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) , a decision reflecting recent disagreements between the PSOE and the UGT , and formally ending the once close relationship between the two organizations . |
| 8 | Throughout the summer Solchaga had been in fruitless negotiations for a " pact of progress " between the government and the two main unions — the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( CCOO ) . |
| 9 | Cordial relations between the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the PSOE were resumed at a meeting , the first for five years , between UGT secretary-general Nicolás Redondo and PSOE deputy secretary-general Alfonso Guerra on Sept. 30 following a longstanding rift over government economic policy [ see pp. 36359-60 for Redondo 's 1988 refusal to take up the UGT seat on the PSOE executive ] . |
| 10 | The POR had considerable influence in the powerful Bolivian mine-workers ' union , the FSTMB , and was responsible for drafting its main charter , the Thesis of Pulacayo , in 1946 . |
| 11 | The Tunisian General Workers ' Union ( UGTT ) held a two-day session in April 1989 at the end of which it elected a new 13-member executive bureau with Ali Sabahni as new secretary-general . |
| 12 | Earlier this week Clacton , unemployment blackspot of the South East , was tipped to win grant aid following research carried out by the General Municipal Boilermakers ' Union . |
| 13 | In 1974 it formed an alliance with the left-wing rural workers ' union , the UTC . |
| 14 | A recent step forward was the announcement in October 1990 of the formation of a broad-based teachers ' organization — the South African Democratic Teachers ' Union — which brings together a number of teachers ' unions previously separated on racial , geographical and political lines . |
| 15 | The Electricians Union was prepared to follow the AUEW and , already faced with the breakaway Democratic Miners ' Union in Nottingham , the TUC was forced to find a face-saving formula to avert a possible split . |
| 16 | Mr Dowding is a leading official in the local National Farmers ' Union and is aware of the risks involved in throwing away the drugs and chemicals . |