Example sentences of "[art] [noun] unions ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Roger Poole , the ambulance unions ' chief negotiator , said that the Government was putting the lives of Londoners at risk . |
| 2 | Unity Trust , the trades unions ' bank , would support an employee share ownership scheme in any bid and its chairman Sir Dennis Landau has urged Mr Heseltine to look at the offer . |
| 3 | Unity Trust , the trades unions ' bank , would support an employee share ownership scheme in any bid and its chairman , Sir Dennis Landau , has urged Mr Heseltine to look at the offer . |
| 4 | The efforts of the home unions ' committee appear to have worked — for now at least . |
| 5 | ARFU officials and Wallabies can not fathom the Home Unions ' inflexibility on the issue , particularly since the ARFU allowed England to interrupt their tour of Australia last year to play two matches in Fiji before returning to play a Test in Sydney . |
| 6 | PLANS to introduce a ‘ one member , one vote ’ system in key Labour elections were torpedoed yesterday — by the trade unions ' block vote . |
| 7 | One possible explanation for the interest in reforming the commercial sector may be the Thatcher Government 's desire to break the trade unions ' ‘ hold ’ on the industry . |
| 8 | The Webbs explain that their original definition , relating the trade unions ' function to conditions of employment , implied that trade unions had always contemplated a perpetual continuance of the capitalist or wage system , whereas they had at various dates during the past century at any rate frequently had aspirations towards a revolutionary change in social and economic conditions . |
| 9 | Whichever alternative is right , the trade unions ' bid for a share in the control of industry and , implicitly , to stand as an equal with Parliament as a body to which the nationalised industries should be accountable , could no longer be entertained . |
| 10 | Their case would have been vastly more plausible ; and a decisive electoral victory for the Labour Party might have been seen as a mandate for the promotion of industrial democracy in the trade unions ' model of it , and as an implicit declaration of public opinion in favour of the consequential abridgement or even abrogation of the rights of ownership . |
| 11 | How sweetly reasonable ; and , given the trade unions ' function as an implicated part of Capitalism , how impossible . |
| 12 | Seven years after Mrs Thatcher 's warning to the unions and nearly seven years of government under her direction during which time the trade unions ' privileges have been reduced , the growth of wages continues strongly at a time of very high unemployment . |
| 13 | That knowledge , extended through manufacturing and service industry would ensure generally that the wages suit was cut according to the profitability cloth ; and would remove from the operation of the national economy the inflationary propensity of the trade unions ' monopoly of the supply of labour and , with it , a main cause of the United Kingdom 's industrial debility . |
| 14 | For senior management an important lesson was the trade unions ' capacity to absorb change and to become its agents . |
| 15 | The trade unions ' ‘ golden formula ’ of action ‘ in furtherance of a trade dispute ’ looks weaker as a protection than it did . |
| 16 | While it is arguable that the Labour Party dances to the trade unions ' tune , it is also the case that the special relationship facilitates bargaining . |
| 17 | What the right-wingers are saying is that we will have the trade unions ' money but we will not give 'em the right to vote . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the Trades Union Congress today accuses the Government of ‘ narrow ideological hostility ’ to the trade unions ' traditional celebration of the May Day public holiday . |
| 19 | The health unions ' refusal to return to the negotiating table proved a major mistake . |
| 20 | The production unions ' success had various causes , including an effective closed shop and weak newspaper managements . |