Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] workers ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | British Aerospace workers ' hopes of a revival were shot down yesterday with the news that 650 jobs are to be axed . |
| 3 | The 30 May Workers ' Liberation Front ( Frente Obreroi Liberashon 30 di meis — FOL ) , also a coalition member , won three seats ( one in 1985 ) . |
| 4 | The other coalition members are the Frente Obreroi Liberashon 30 di meis ( FOL — 30 May Workers ' Liberation Front ) ; the Union Patriotico Bonairiano ( UBP — Bonaire Patriotic Union , L. R. Ellis l. ) ; the Windward Islands People 's Movement ( WIPM , Will Johnston l. ) ; and the Democratic Party of St Eustatius ( DP-SE , Kenneth van Putten l . ) . |
| 5 | LABOUR 'S policy review was a symbol of the party renewing itself and becoming again a force for change , Tom Sawyer , deputy general secretary of Nupe , the public sector workers ' union , said at the start of four days of debate on the review reports . |
| 6 | Public sector workers ' pay will be frozen in the Autumn Statement on Thursday . |
| 7 | One union leader estimated last night that the measure would take more than £2 billion out of public sector workers ' pockets , would worsen the recession and cost even more jobs . |
| 8 | Many teenage farm workers ' sons are soon earning as much as , if not more than , their fathers , and not surprisingly they soon demand the independence from parental authority which their economic independence confers . |
| 9 | In such cases workers ' resistance may be defensive and more obviously oppositional . |
| 10 | For the foreseeable future , however , the inherent weaknesses of unionization in agriculture seem likely to continue to haunt the N U A A W. The falling number of agricultural workers , the urban influences that are spreading across tracts of once ‘ truly rural ’ countryside and the changing nature of the farm worker 's skills may conspire in any case to lead to a reappraisal of the need for a separate farm workers ' union . |
| 11 | Eventually he owned most of the country between Bath and Malmesbury , an estate that he covered with a complete range of model estate buildings , from tiny farm workers ' cottages to his great house at Grittleton . |
| 12 | Legal and economic context in which this takes place and of the impact of these changes on the scientific community as a whole and on the individual laboratory workers ' culture and practice . |
| 13 | Cotter seems to have enjoyed a fitfully co-operative relationship with Wilson until 1921 , when the NSFU seceded from the National Transport Workers ' Federation . |
| 14 | On his return he made common cause with Ben Tillett and others to establish a National Transport Workers ' Federation which had its first conference on 1 June 1911 . |
| 15 | Some seven days before the due date a decision was taken by the National Transport Workers ' Federation not to take part . |
| 16 | Faced by such determination and by the solidarity shown by workers in the ports of the entire kingdom , the National Transport Workers ' Federation sloughed off its doubts at a conference on 28 June and swung in behind Wilson and Cotter . |
| 17 | The call went out from a meeting of the National Transport Workers ' Federation Executive on 10 June , Edmund Cathery , in Wilson 's continued absence , declaring that his union would not be bound by it . |
| 18 | In 1974 military engineers stood by to operate power stations in Northern Ireland during the protest strike by the Protestant Ulster Workers ' Council , though they could have done nothing without the help of at least the power station managers . |
| 19 | For example , in May 1974 the Protestant Ulster Workers ' Council called a successful strike in protest at the Sunningdale proposals for power-sharing between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | Because fewer farm workers ' sons are willing to work in agriculture the contrasts between the traditional and the modern , between the old dependency and the new independence , are imported into the families of those older workers who have remained on the land . |
| 21 | For the journalists , resentment at the move to Wapping and the slaughtering of 5,500 print workers ' jobs was combined with bitterness at Murdoch 's destruction of the papers ' esprit de corps and journalistic standards . |
| 22 | But after she moved in , the house began to grow on her and she already had plenty of ideas for improving what had originally been three farm workers ' cottages . |
| 23 | At any rate , it would be an exaggeration to speak of a collapse of militancy , or to infer that over the long term workers ' resistance can not be maintained . |
| 24 | On 28 September 1911 Hermann Jochade , secretary of the International Transport Workers ' Federation in a letter to its secretary Arthur Cannon expressed his surprise at the branch 's actions , and noted " I have myself investigated the workings of the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union , as I have done with other unions connected with the International Transport Workers ' Federation in Great Britain , and have pleasure in stating and testifying that the Seamen 's Union is one of the best organised and conducted of all unions I have made enquiries into . |
| 25 | On 28 September 1911 Hermann Jochade , secretary of the International Transport Workers ' Federation in a letter to its secretary Arthur Cannon expressed his surprise at the branch 's actions , and noted " I have myself investigated the workings of the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union , as I have done with other unions connected with the International Transport Workers ' Federation in Great Britain , and have pleasure in stating and testifying that the Seamen 's Union is one of the best organised and conducted of all unions I have made enquiries into . |
| 26 | The International Transport Workers ' Federation |
| 27 | It was this challenge which seems to have led him in 1896 to call a meeting in Bride Street , London , of a few carefully chosen colleagues which resulted in the establishment of the International Federation of Ship , Dock and River Workers which was renamed in 1898 the International Transport Workers ' Federation . |
| 28 | Wilson had for some time claimed to the International Transport Workers ' Federation that the Shipping Federation would crumble if the fight could be carried to every port at one and the same time . |
| 29 | It was small wonder that anti-war and pacifist groups flourished in the labour movement of the time , though rarely among seamen and , it seems , hardly at all among their leaders , though initially " hating the Hun " was far from easy , for German seamen had long been colleagues and comrades , not only aboard ship , but also in organisations affiliated to the International Transport Workers ' Federation . |
| 30 | The International Transport Workers ' Federation blacked a ship in an attempt to force its owners to pay wages in accordance with the Federation 's scales . |