Example sentences of "general [noun] ' union " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these was James Larkin 's Irish Transport and General Workers ' Union , the ITGWU . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Transport and General Workers ' Union , which has the largest block vote ( 1.3m ) , is abstaining . |
| 4 | Ron Todd , Transport and General Workers ' Union general secretary , was applauded as he reaffirmed his union 's commitment to unilateralism . |
| 5 | Or , in the case of the GMB general workers ' union , backing an alternative federal grouping of ethnic minority organisations . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Bill Morris , of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , also blamed government neglect of public services for the tragedies at Lockerbie , Clapham and Zeebrugge . |
| 9 | He belongs to the General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) , which has quarrelled with the Socialist Party . |
| 10 | In spite of threats of defiance , court-imposed fines were collected from the NUM , NGA , and Transport and General Workers ' Union . |
| 11 | His chief challenger is Mr Paul Davies , a Transport and General Workers ' Union district official . |
| 12 | The Transport and General Workers ' Union complained last night after a driver employed at RAF Stafford died from a heart attack . |
| 13 | When the result was officially declared at a general committee meeting of the Birkenhead party last night , Mr Field had already won the first round of the ballot in the individual members section with 159 votes against his two challengers , Mr Paul Davies , a local Transport and General Workers ' union official , who secured 75 votes and Militant supporter , Ms Kathy Wilson , with 48 votes . |
| 14 | Mr Field lost the nomination to a local Transport and General Workers ' union official , Mr Paul Davies , because he failed to secure sufficient votes in the trade union section . |
| 15 | The charge of putting profits before passenger protection was also made by the Transport and General Workers ' Union , the aviation industry 's biggest trade union , in a booklet launching its Aviation Security Charter . |
| 16 | A minute 's silence was held in memory of the Lockerbie victims when the charity was launched yesterday at Transport House in London , headquarters of the Transport and General Workers ' Union . |
| 17 | Mr Kinnock 's own union , the 1.1 million-strong Transport and General Workers ' Union , yesterday confirmed that it is to sue Mr Paddy Ashdown and six other Liberal Democrat leaders over a claim in a party newspaper that the T&G had advised members in 29 key marginals to vote Liberal Democrat rather than Labour . |
| 18 | One reason why Mr Smith is regarded as the front-runner is that he has already secured the support of key trade union leaders , including John Edmonds of the GMB general workers ' union and Gavin Laird of the engineers . |
| 19 | In Argentina , the formative period began with the formation of mutual aid associations for shoemakers and printers and ended with the foundation of the General workers ' Union and three general strikes . |
| 20 | This was beginning to revive , with new affiliations like the Amalgamated Engineering Union and the Irish Transport and General Workers ' Union ( ITGWU ) . |
| 21 | Allegations of tapping of strikers and their leaders include claims that , during the General Strike in 1926 , Ernest Bevin , then leader of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , had his telephone tapped ( Post Office Engineering Union , 1980 : 15 ) . |
| 22 | There was the daily undignified spectacle of Sir Clive Rose of the Civil Contingencies Unit meeting with Alex Kitson of the Transport and General Workers ' Union to discuss breaches of the union 's voluntary code on picketing during the lorry-driver 's dispute . |
| 23 | The unions , including her own Transport and General Workers ' Union , are no longer looking like a pushover for her . |
| 24 | Transport & General Workers ' Union deputy secretary Jack Adams warned that his members would ballot for industrial action if there were compulsory redundancies . |
| 25 | All three judges allowed an appeal by the Transport and General Workers ' Union , which represented the 89 women sacked by Middlebrook Mushroom , and lifted an injunction which had blocked the campaign . |
| 26 | trade unions : General & Municipal Worker 's Union National Union of Railwaymen Transport & General Workers ' Union Union of Shop Distributive & Allied Workers United Road Transport Union . |
| 27 | The continuing silence of the Transport and General Workers ' Union over the selection of drivers for redundancy by Tarmac Roadstone Ltd on a quarry-by-quarry basis , resulted in a Nottingham industrial tribunal deciding that the company had acted fairly . |
| 28 | John Mackley , port workers ' representative of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said he was hoping to meet the authority 's senior management ‘ as soon as possible ’ . |
| 29 | Instead he concentrated on the unofficial Ford Workers ' Combine , which bypassed the official union structure dominated by the Transport and General Workers ' Union . |
| 30 | He was friendly with Ron Todd , the head of the giant Transport and General Workers ' Union , with more than one million members . |