Example sentences of "worker ' [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adopt , with the exception of Britain , a charter guaranteeing workers ' rights in the single European market to be created in 1992 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is still the case that social workers ' reliance on the legislature or the courts to solve the problems posed by the varying use of secure accommodation is ineffective in improving the allocation process . |
| 4 | It issued a strike threat in support of demands for rises in pensions and wages , a programme for dealing with unemployment and in defence of workers ' interests in the context of privatization . |
| 5 | It is here that the importance of social movements becomes apparent , for such movements — whether they are large-scale and enduring , like the trade union movement , or more specific , concerned with particular issues in some historical period , like the unemployed workers ' movements of the 1930s — do not only establish , in some cases , the preconditions for the emergence or transformation of organized political formations , but also constitute an independent form of political commitment and action which is an essential , often highly effective , element in political struggles . |
| 6 | But they rushed through another resolution surrendering control of the 60,000-strong Workers ' Guard to the government . |
| 7 | However , there is little direct evidence as yet on how such schemes actually affect workers ' attitudes to the company performance . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You may like to consider the fact that readers of the popular press contributed millions to BandAid , SportAid , Comic Relief etc ; have taken solidarity action in support of trade unionists in South Africa and Namibia ; are informed about workers ' conditions in the same industries in the Far East and so on . |
| 10 | The government had not intervened in the dockers ' ban , and although they supported the Poles against the Bolsheviks they were aware of the general feelings amongst the working classes , which were expressed vociferously at workers ' meetings throughout the country . |
| 11 | SOCIAL WORKERS ' REACTIONS TO THE STUDY |
| 12 | Social workers ' contribution to the legal process is both appropriate and vital . |
| 13 | And the workers ' skills in the giant rolling mills and small cutlery works add even more to the value of the products . |
| 14 | In many ways it was a sad ending for a tutor who had given some twenty years to the cause of workers ' education in the county and perhaps the most sincere and apposite appreciation of her many qualities came most appropriately from a member of the Kettering branch : |
| 15 | Hence , despite the brave attempts of many farm workers ' leaders since the days of the Tolpuddle Martyrs , the farm worker has little history beyond poverty , dependence and remorseless labour . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers ' share of the much smaller total of numbers in full-time work fell by over 3 percentage points : from 26.7 to 23.3 per cent . |
| 17 | ANC officials called for police help during the weekend of April 13-14 when some 500 armed Inkatha supporters attacked a workers ' hostel near the Mandelas ' home in Soweto . |
| 18 | In summary , increased polarization in workers ' commitment to the labour movement is associated with a fall in membership , but wage changes are ambiguous . |
| 19 | The demands of the unemployed workers ' movement of the 1930s had an unexpected radicalism , not because people then were more " political " , but because the unemployed were able to make their own measure of an income . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Hughes ( 1960 ) noted what he called ‘ a failure of initiative and imagination on the part of trade unions ’ concerning workers ' control in the nationalised industries generally , a ‘ failure ’ which was not really made good over the '60s . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | Sir George Askwith , the Board of Trade 's Chief Industrial Commissioner , quickly persuaded Devonport to meet Harry Gosling and Harry Orbell , an influential official of the London Dockers , who were representative of both the executive of the Transport Workers ' Federation and the workers ' side of the Port of London Authority and to assure them that existing agreements would be maintained . |
| 24 | Han Dongfang , leader of the workers ' organization during the Tiananmen Square protests , who was held without trial for two years until released on bail for medical treatment in April , was exempted from prosecution on the grounds that he had given himself up , the agency said . |
| 25 | She is also visiting cotton and sugar workers ' unions in the eastern tropical plains , where cholera is widespread . |
| 26 | Again , and like the Workers ' Party in the same election , they were disadvantaged . |
| 27 | The ITGWU County Cork organizer , Hugh O'Callaghan , who had been a member of the workers ' delegation to the US Ambassador , responded that he was convinced that the project would go ahead , though an inquiry might help to quell current concern . |
| 28 | For Marx this historical work was also political , because he believed that understanding the workers ' condition through the study of history would enable them the better to fight it . |
| 29 | The image of the miners as gladiators for women during the Grunwick strike by Asian women in London in the late seventies and the hospital workers ' strikes during the early eighties veiled their reservations about the rights of women in general , which have been entrenched in the culture of their community . |
| 30 | As soon as the authorities were in no position to prevent the lower classes expressing their wishes — in 1905 , in the elections to the workers ' curias for the Duma elections of 1906 , 1907 and 1912 , and in 1917 itself — their demands in large measure coincided with those of the major revolutionary parties . |