Example sentences of "[adj] workers ' " in BNC.

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1 With its proposal for the granting of a maximum of three days consecutive holiday , it actually worsened some workers ' conditions .
2 She was secretary of the Tollemarche United Church Willing Workers ' Group , vice-president ( not president ! ) of the Tollemarche Downtown Community Centre , a driver for Cripples ' Transport , a member of the Car Dealers ' Wives Society and , she would remind him , a member of the Committee for the Preservation of Morals .
3 He then put his last efforts into a Scottish Workers ' Republican Party and , after further imprisonment , reverted to a sort of nationalistic anarchism .
4 On the other hand , the lowest incidence of prematurity was found among managerial , professional and clerical workers ' children , among whom the mothers could probably provide a higher quality of prenatal care .
5 Our ongoing successes with and the acquired rights directive will eventually put a halt to the attacks on public workers ' rights .
6 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 .
7 Yet earlier in the article he mentions that car workers ' wages have risen from 40 per cent to 69 per cent of German workers ' wages .
8 They had talked of spontaneous workers ' movements , of activity from below , and suddenly there it was .
9 In the year to December Japanese workers received a wage increase of 6.3% , equivalent to a real rise of 2.4% ; British workers ' pay rose by 9.8% , a real increase of only 0.5% .
10 The British Workers ' League was founded under Milner 's wing as a front organization that was linked in principle with the coalition as a whole but was run from the Unionist side .
11 Land nearby had been bought up for 300 workers ' houses .
12 A new trade union , the National Free Workers ' Association , was set up in September .
13 One Vietnamese was killed and four received gunshot wounds in an incident at a foreign workers ' hostel in Sofia on March 17 .
14 On April 4 the Mauritanian Workers ' Union ( UTM ) had demanded the introduction of a multiparty system , citing recent events in Mali [ see pp. 38083 ; 38134 ] .
15 The Mauritanian Workers ' Union ( MWU ) called a 48-hour strike for June 19-20 in protest at what it claimed was a deliberately manufactured deadlock in tripartite wage negotiations between the government , employers and the MWU .
16 As already stressed , the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement and , its mentor , the Communist Party of Great Britain , failed to find the revolutionary spirit which they felt was being dampened and re-channelled by the Labour Party .
17 Our second decision concerned Mrs Kate Duncan who , as a member of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , wanted to give a speech outside an unemployment training centre .
18 While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians .
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 Erm well there was er there was the local organization for the unemployed , the national union , the er national unemployed workers ' movement .
21 Er instrumentalists , local instrumentalists but er overall of course it er i i i i it was the er er unemployed workers ' organization .
22 In April 1921 fifty delegates from England and Wales set up a national organization , the National Unemployed Workers ' Committee Movement ( NUWCM ) , with Wal Hannington as national organizer .
23 These demonstrations were organised by the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , and their actions illustrate one of the major differences between responses to unemployment in the 1920s and 1930s and current responses .
24 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 .
25 A second stage emerges when the achievement of representative government , universal and equal suffrage , and free elections seems to diminish the importance of political action outside the formal institutional sphere , although in periods of crisis social movements , such as the unemployed workers ' movements or the fascist movements in some European countries , may develop .
26 After it it seen this week at the Tron Theatre , Glasgow , the company will be taking Antigone to the Mercat Theatre in Drumchapel and to the Gorbals Unemployed Workers ' Centre , where Reekie expects that the ‘ strong , accessible storyline ’ of the play will appeal to an audience who respond to exactly such elements when they are presented in the form of TV soaps .
27 People who were involved in voluntary work , or community work , or with the unemployed workers ' centre , were also sort of being taken out of themselves more , and these things are important in and of themselves .
28 The first stage of this research , now completed , explored social workers ' reactions to this method of assessment .
29 SOCIAL WORKERS ' REACTIONS TO THE STUDY
30 I came to England — Ipswich — to study for the social workers ' qualification , a CQSW in Community Work , believing that I could work with women in the ways I wanted , provided I had the necessary qualifications .
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