Example sentences of "worker ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working class literature is that writing which first appears within the modern working class in the process of its formation and carries the marks of its origin in its attitude to society , particularly to workers ' problems , and in its manner of expression . |
| 2 | His first fast unto death occurred in 1918 , in support of the Ahmedabad textile workers ' strike , and was employed against the mill-owning family , who were devoted to him . |
| 3 | In 1974 , UDA ‘ muscle ’ brought thousands on to the streets to enforce the Ulster Workers ' strike which toppled the power-sharing executive . |
| 4 | They relate to a crackdown on a shipyard workers ' strike in 1970 in which at least 25 people died . |
| 5 | Strikes included one at Ford ( which cost 117,000 vehicles ) , the bakery workers ' strike ( which involved violent picketing ) , strikes at British Leyland , Vauxhall , Rolls Royce , and the southern region of British Rail . |
| 6 | Even as a proportion of the number of workers on strike for two weeks or more , the figures are still very small — 4.4 per cent in 1965 and 36.8 per cent in 1971 , the year of the post office workers ' strike . |
| 7 | The resumption followed an oil workers ' strike and the planned transfer of the trans-Andean oil pipeline from the United States company Texaco to the state-owned PETROECUADOR [ see pp. 36344 ; 37068 ] . |
| 8 | Bananas were Honduras 's principal export , and the banana workers ' strike was expected to cost US$60,000,000 in lost production . |
| 9 | Metal workers ' strike — Ending of car import quotas |
| 10 | Despite government denials , the use of troops to end forcibly a 42-day banana workers ' strike was taken as evidence of its strong anti-labour stance [ see p. 37649 ] . |
| 11 | The copper workers ' strike , which had started on July 20 [ see p. 39017 ] , was supported by six other unions , which called for a national general strike to start on Aug. 18 , and for an end to Poland 's economic reforms . |
| 12 | The copper workers ' strike , which had started on July 20 [ see p. 39017 ] , was supported by six other unions , which called for a national general strike to start on Aug. 18 , and for an end to Poland 's economic reforms . |
| 13 | Large wage increases were thus envisaged for doctors and teachers , currently among the lowest paid [ for May medical workers ' strike see p. 38923 ] . |
| 14 | Angry workers ' strike ballot |
| 15 | A POSTAL workers ' strike over planned job cuts spread through Paris yesterday and the state-run company La Poste said nearly half the capital 's postmen were not doing their rounds . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Adopt , with the exception of Britain , a charter guaranteeing workers ' rights in the single European market to be created in 1992 . |
| 20 | The workers ' rights we believe in are those which enhance individuals ' status and opportunities . |
| 21 | Moreover , legislation associated with improving workers ' rights in Germany took control many of the important details of university life , such as departmental policy and appointments , out of the hands of the heads of departments and transferred them to committees of faculty members at all levels . |
| 22 | Countless Labour candidates spent the election defending their passionate commitment to a statutory minimum wage and workers ' rights . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | But with the government forced , this week , to remove all reference to the parts of the treaty that deal with workers ' rights , the exact form of what gets ratified remains in doubt . |
| 25 | If a major feature of the Co-operative Commonwealth was to be the ownership and control by the workforce of the particular enterprise employing them , if , in other words , it was to comprehend authentic industrial democracy , then the abrogation in 1875 of the workers ' rights and privileges of the workers employed in factories producing goods for sale in co-operative retail stores was a misdirection of the Movement . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Part-time Workers ' Rights |
| 28 | Some trade unions argued that free time was as important as perhaps even more important than — money in the struggle for workers ' rights . |
| 29 | He is selling out the workers ' rights and , by doing so , the future of any United Kingdom Parliament . |
| 30 | 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 . |