Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] ' union " in BNC.

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31 Significant opposition from the Miners ' Union over high cost capacity cuts , new escalation of anti-nuclear hostilities , worsening relations with the Soviet bloc : any of these factors could significantly affect West Germany 's energy future .
32 Yes , the miners ' union then was just was n't that that was started was .
33 In fact there 's , very near the start of the unions in and o er that , that the miners ' union was one of the first to start up .
34 In the end , the best the miners ' union could achieve was redundancy payments averaging around $2,480 .
35 He admired what the early Methodists did for the miners and how the earliest of the miners ' unions was Methodist in its inspiration .
36 Bill Jordan , president of the engineers ' union AEU , was hissed when he told delegates a Labour government should be ready to play a positive role in a Nato that was now ‘ reaping a spectacular harvest of peace ’ from years of multilateralism .
37 Scanlon 's successor as President of the Engineers ' Union , Terry Duffy , was , in fact , a strongly right-wing figure anxious to reach an accommodation with the government , but naturally it would take him time to build up his authority .
38 It met the flight attendants ' union on Monday and is also hoping to talk to the pilots ' union .
39 Between 1916 and 1920 membership of the NALRWU grew from 4000 to 93000 , while at the end of the same period the Workers ' Union ( the precursor of the TGWU ) contained an estimated 120000 farm workers .
40 It 's only dirty tricks and underhanded tactics used by the T & G during the approach of the Workers ' Union so must realize Congress , to be more positive , one of the major benefits or more , the major benefit from future amalgamation with the T & G would be the free help of officials from both unions and and negotiations both national , regional and even at times individual company level where both unions help members .
41 In Allen v. Flood a dispute arose between the ironworkers ' union and woodworkers , the former objecting to certain work being done by the latter .
42 Later he denied having ever attended committee meetings of the Officers ' Union , or indeed having done more than establish four branches for them at Glasgow , Leith , Liverpool and Hull before resigning in September 189I .
43 It has won control of a number of trade unions , including the accountants ' union and the committee of local United Nations employees .
44 He is a polo umpire , a judge of horseflesh , adviser to the Farmers ' Union , a stalwart of regimental dinners and a confidant of opposition politicians .
45 Also on Oct. 21 Mitterrand called on Raymond Lacombe , the chairman of the farmers ' union FNSEA ( Fédération nationale des syndicats d'exploitants agricoles ) , to control his supporters , describing the attacks by " gangs " who were not representative of the main body of farmers as " unacceptable " and ordering the police to intervene to restore law and order .
46 FUW 's man JOHN Phillips , of Cwmbach , near Builth Wells , has been elected a new vice-president of the Farmers ' Union of Wales .
47 The Farmers ' Union of Wales had said it was fishermen who should be made to pay .
48 NEW vice-presidents of the Farmers ' Union of Wales from North and Mid Wales were both on parade at Hill Sheep ‘ 93 .
49 A spokesman for the Farmers ' Union of Wales , which has set up a farm and rural consultancy service , considered reports of widespread farm fraud ‘ greatly exaggerated . ’
50 To assist them the Farmers ' Union of Wales has produced an easy-to-use flock record book costing 50p .
51 THE mineworkers ' unions yesterday agreed to call off their High Court bid to force British Coal to reopen and work 10 pits earmarked for early closure .
52 The usually ultra-orthodox organ of the Free German Youth ( FDJ ) , which on Monday attacked ‘ pervasive bossiness ’ by the President of the Writers ' Union , Herrman Kant , quoted a sermon in the opposition centre , Leipzig 's church .
53 After the Nobel announcement , Novy Mir 's letter of rejection of two years before was hastily published to lend justification to Pasternak 's expulsion from the writers ' union as a traitor : ‘ The spirit of your novel is that of non-acceptance of the Socialist Revolution , that it brought the people nothing but suffering and destroyed the Russian intelligentsia … that the Revolution was a mistake and that all that happened afterwards was evil . ’
54 The book should have been published , he told the writers ' union , in a small edition and ‘ allowed to be forgotten ’ .
55 With the destruction of state socialism in Hungary , the old and relatively comfortable set-up in which officially approved writers could have access to funds , however limited , via the Writers ' Union , will come to an end , since the Union itself will no longer have any official funding .
56 On Dec. 1 , 1989 , Anatoli Ananev , editor of the Writers ' Union journal Oktyabr , was dismissed for publishing a satirical article about Pushkin ( by the exiled writer Andrei Sinyavsky ) and a novel which criticized Lenin .
57 On July 4 the dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was readmitted ( after 20 years ) to the Writers ' Union , which voted to publish his book The Gulag Archipelago and to press for the return of his citizenship ( of which he was stripped in 1974 ) , an idea which the author rejected in December .
58 And just as IBM has failed accurately to perceive the power of the customers ' unions , it has underestimated the importance of lessors and publishers .
59 Moreover , the functions it took on within the capital — including the setting up of an armed militia , the publication of an uncensored newspaper , the imposition via the printers ' union of its own form of censorship , and above all the coordination of strike action — gave it the appearance of rivalling the authority of the government itself .
60 For a few days there was a period of uncertainty , as Huw waited to see if the Brotherhood were planning another attack upon him — and the Inner Circle of the Guild waited to see if any steps would be taken by the Dockers ' Union , or by the police , in defence of the young man .
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