Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] workers [unc] " in BNC.

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1 The Directive also provides for pregnant workers ' right not to do night work if they have a doctor 's certificate stating that such work would endanger their health .
2 Land nearby had been bought up for 300 workers ' houses .
3 This tension surfaced in particularly acute form on the morrow of the first proletarian revolution as the Bolsheviks attempted to construct a system of coordinated workers ' control over industry in face of the proliferation of relatively independent factory committees .
4 They hailed the Paris Commune of 1870–1 as the first authentic workers ' revolution and a prototype of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ , the transitional form of strong workers ' state which would have to exist between the shattering of capitalist control and the eventual abolition of all class divisions under advanced communism .
5 UP leaders Gabriel Jaime Santamaria and Benito Súarez Garcia had been murdered in November 1989 and February 1990 , and the murder of agricultural workers ' trade union leader Sebastian Mosquera had led to a strike of 26,000 banana workers in September 1989 .
6 They had talked of spontaneous workers ' movements , of activity from below , and suddenly there it was .
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 These problems of prediction related to the definitional fallacy and the statistical fallacy are very evident in the Beckford Report , which was so critical of social workers ' lack of knowledge and use of predictive research .
9 She suggests that this is a hard-line criterion against natural parents which does not take account of social workers ' failure to encourage regular contact between natural parents and children in care .
10 Excluded from the political process in their newly adopted lands , where they were not allowed to vote , and anxious to ensure a higher standard of living in the New World than they had enjoyed at home , they were instrumental in the creation of early workers ' organisations and political parties in Latin America .
11 There was a phrase screeched into the microphone by a hoarse-voiced member of Socialist Workers ' Students ' Organization : ‘ The government must be deaf , dumb and blind if they do not see the madness of this war . ’
12 Interviewed on the radio on Nov. 2 , Demirel criticized support given by Democratic Left Party ( DSP ) leader Bulent Ecevit to proposals for the creation of a Turkish-controlled buffer zone in northern Iraq in order to allow the activities of Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) guerrillas to be supressed .
13 The parallel with developments in the documentation of casual workers ' conditions of engagement [ see Chapter 6 ] are to be noted .
14 Of all workers ' complaints , the justice of those over truck seem to have been most widely acknowledged .
15 In their study of affluent workers ' attitudes to work John Goldthorpe and his colleagues asked three questions designed specifically to measure the extent to which industrial work is experienced as intrinsically unsatisfying .
16 We must remember that , when we talk about the desirability of improving workers ' conditions .
17 It accused Mr Zhao , who was sacked as party secretary in June , of encouraging the formation of independent workers ' unions during student-led protests .
18 The second main study of industrial workers ' attitudes was carried out by Brown and Levin in the early 1970s , with a national sample of over 2,000 weekly-paid workers .
19 The fact that employers were organised by industry had a feedback effect on the structure of manual workers ' trade unions .
20 Although many sons have moved up , the homogeneous character of manual workers ' origins contrasts starkly with the middle class .
21 The demonstration was sponsored by some 70 organizations , including SOS-Racisme , the League of Human Rights , the Federation of Immigrant Workers ' Solidarity Organizations ( FASTI ) and the Movement against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples ( MRAP ) , as well as left-wing political parties and trade unions .
22 Labour Party plans for a national minimum wage were criticised by the AEU engineering union , which fears an erosion of skilled workers ' pay differentials .
23 The Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , which had passed resolutions in favour of both workers ' control and nationalization , supported state control and in order to avoid industrial conflict the Lloyd George Coalition government set up a royal commission , chaired by Lord Sankey , to investigate the coal industry .
24 Is the Minister aware of the continuing violence against rural workers ' leaders and their supporters in Brazil and of the fact that according to recent evidence from the Brazilian Church 's Pastoral Land Commission since 1964 , 1,667 rural workers have been murdered , that there have been 23 trials and only 13 sentences ?
25 Moreover , legislation associated with improving workers ' rights in Germany took control many of the important details of university life , such as departmental policy and appointments , out of the hands of the heads of departments and transferred them to committees of faculty members at all levels .
26 In its early days it attracted support from a wide range of anti-Francoist groups , including Catholic workers ' organizations , but subsequently it came increasingly under the control of the communist party .
27 It was not conceived to address many of the concerns uppermost in social workers ' minds .
28 He also announced the cancellation as of Jan. 1 of the collection of RPT membership dues by means of deductions at source from all workers ' salaries .
29 Births in manual workers ' families , particularly to women in class IV and V , fell by a third .
30 rate of increase in productive workers ' consumption declines , whilst G remains constant , then there will emerge the surplus of unsold consumption goods that she postulated .
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