Example sentences of "[noun] ' union in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Electricians Union was prepared to follow the AUEW and , already faced with the breakaway Democratic Miners ' Union in Nottingham , the TUC was forced to find a face-saving formula to avert a possible split . |
| 2 | It is perhaps significant that the last strike organized by the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers was in 1923 and nearly bankrupted the Union ; although , having amalgamated with the Transport and General Workers ' Union in 1982 , farm workers may now find themselves in a better bargaining position . |
| 3 | Tillett 's Tea Operatives had only been spurred into action by the activities of an outspoken gas stoker named Will Thorne who had succeeded in organizing the men at the great Beckton gasworks in East Ham into forming a Gas Workers ' Union in May 1889 . |
| 4 | In 1913 this tendency was reinforced by the activities of James Larkin , a Liverpool born Irishman who had served his apprenticeship as an active trade unionist and full-time official with James Sexton 's National Union of Dock Labourers but who , resenting any control exercised from its Liverpool headquarters , had set up his own Irish Transport and General Workers ' Union in December 1908 . |
| 5 | I 'm Joe , a member of the cocoa workers ' union in Ghana . |
| 6 | Arnaldo Ferreira , a local leader of the Rural Workers ' Union in Eldorado do Carajas , Amazonia , was shot dead as he slept , four days after the discovery of Vinha 's body . |
| 7 | The National Trust is supporting MEPs , MPs , and the National Farmers ' Union in fighting the directive . |
| 8 | Roger Welberry , chairman of the National Vegetable committee of the National Farmers ' Union in England and Wales will be in the province for a meeting organised by the Ulster Farmers ' Union next week . |
| 9 | The National Farmers ' Union in Cumbria is also against the new BSPS and butchers are concerned at its effects on the beef market after its introduction in April . |
| 10 | The second seminar will be held in July at National College and the third will be held at the Training Centre of the German Mineworkers ' Union in October . |
| 11 | In recognition of his work , he received an honorary MA from Cambridge in 1952 , a special Union gold medal of the British Ornithologists ' Union in 1959 , and the Stamford Raffles award of the Zoological Society of London in 1966 . |
| 12 | International concern over the spate of killings of rural union leaders was further heightened by the wounding in an assassination attempt on March 4 of Carlos Cabral , president of the Farmworkers ' Union in Rio Maria in the jungle state of Pará ( and the son-in-law of the union 's founder , Joao Canuto , who had himself been assassinated in 1985 ) . |
| 13 | In greater exasperation Mrs Stead-Carter said she 'd never heard anything as silly in her life : the Mothers ' Union in Dynmouth had neither Tupperware nor suede clothes nor underclothes at its disposal , Miss Poraway 's whole line of conversation was a waste of time . |
| 14 | She failed to see , Mrs Stead-Carter finally declared , why it was that Miss Poraway , who had never been a mother , should concern herself with the Mothers ' Union in the first place . |
| 15 | A second congress of the All-Russian Peasants ' Union in November was satisfied neither by the Manifesto nor by the announcement that redemption dues were to be phased out altogether , and peasant disturbances continued through 1906 and into 1907 . |
| 16 | He knows it chiefly as a source of seasonal traffic jams about which Marjorie sometimes complains ( the University day begins too late and finishes too early to inconvenience Vic himself ) and of distractingly pretty girls about whose safety he worries , seeing them walking to and fro between their halls of residence and the Students ' Union in the evenings . |
| 17 | The Students ' Union in the University of Ulster is concerned about your involvement and about helping you to enjoy your student days . |
| 18 | He is talking about social ecology on Tuesday 12 May at Lady Mitchell Hall , Sidgwick Avenue , Cambridge ; on 14 May at Bristol University Students ' Union in Queens Road ; on Monday 18 May at the Beckett Lecture Theatre of Leeds University in Woodhouse Lane ; and on Thursday 21 May at St James ' Church , Piccadilly , in London . |