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

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1 And so these two brothers , they both got back on , but unfortunately er Les , he was made a full time official of the miners , when he retired , full time official of the miners union .
2 Most of the Students Union offices seemed to be below square level , under the podia .
3 There were , of course , one or two things that police officers kept to themselves , that the public never saw or heard , and that with the death of the Police Union there were no channels to articulate .
4 Mr Clifton paid particular tribute to the work of the trades union representatives on the advisory committee .
5 Some sections of the Trades Union Congress still felt that the central problem of the inter-war years was unemployment and that , in a way , a slow down in population would not be a bad thing .
6 Combined with the temporary solution of the coal crisis in 1925 , which will be discussed later , the anticipated textile victory buoyed up the whole of the trades union movement .
7 The leaders of the Trades Union Congress , governors of the BBC , the Archbishops of York and Canterbury , to say nothing of grand figures like the former foreign secretary , Lord Halifax , the former chancellor and home secretary who gave his name to the wartime Anderson shelter , Lord Waverley , and the sainted Lady Violet Bonham Carter were all against .
8 The political consensus has also extended to the trade unions , where the position of the Trades Union Congress was dominated by the large industrial unions who had members within the nuclear fold .
9 The unredressed grievances and protests of the Commons against the King , the Civil War , the end of the divine right of kings , the Great Reform movement in the nineteenth century , the founding of the trades union movement , and the suffragette movement of later years , are amongst the salient protest movements of our democratic pedigree .
10 In 1914 he had become a full-time trade union official rising to the general secretaryship of the Trades Union Congress in the 1920s .
11 After attending the annual meeting of the Trades Union Congress for a number of years Lind was eventually declared ineligible to take part in the proceedings in 1881 .
12 At an extraordinary meeting of the Trades Union Congress at the Albert Hall on 9 December 1913 he was prompted to move a motion condemning " the unfair attacks which had been made upon British trade union officials " and affirming " their ability to negotiate an honourable settlement if assured of the effective support of all who are concerned in the Dublin dispute " .
13 On 24 July the General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress went to see the Prime Minister who said , according to The Times , that he would not intervene .
14 Oh well that would be the er I was a member of the er I was a member of the trades union whilst I was in this private distribution .
15 In the context of Britain in the 1960s , for example , government recognises the legitimate right of the Trades Union Congress to be consulted over issues which affect its members .
16 These examples are located in : a local authority-funded employment project ; a Local Education Authority Institute of Adult Education ; a College of Further Education ; a university adult education project for unemployed people ; and the work of the Trades Union Congress Centres Against Unemployment .
17 Now there have been some allegations flying around that there are people in the parliamentary Labour Party who want to get rid of that link and I want to categorically say that there is no serious figure in the Labour Party who shares that opinion there 's no one in the G M B group who takes that view there 's no one in the Shadow Cabinet and what is more , I know from my own personal experience , and my dealings with him over thirty years , that there is no greater supporter of the trades union link than John Smith himself !
18 It was Ernest who said that the Labour Party grew out of the bowels of the trades union movement .
19 One of the subjects of our investigation was high profile leader of the low paid , Rodney , head of the trades union UNISON
20 To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what recent representations he has received from business men about the impact of the Trades Union Congress 's attitude to Japanese inward investment into the United Kingdom .
21 The resolution of the Trades Union Congress , which was passed by an overwhelming majority , was damaging to that prospect .
22 That was clear evidence of how the operation of the Trades Union Congress 's Bridlington principles can deny employees the chance to belong to the union of their choice .
23 Gombojavyn Ochirbat , 61 , chairman of the Trades Union Council from 1972 to 1982 ( when he offended the wife of the then Mongolian leader Tsedenbal ) , and currently Mongolian representative on the editorial board of the World Marxist Review in Prague , was elected MPRP general secretary , and Nyamyn Mishigdorj and Foreign Minister Tserenpilyn Gombosren became members of the secretariat .
24 In addition , a special meeting of the National Council of Labour — the body that represented the General Council of the Trades Union Congress as well as the Parliamentary Labour Party and the National Executive — was hastily summoned to endorse the commitment .
25 But Bevin indicated that the Labour Ministers would need to consult the National Executive of the party and the General Council of the Trades Union Congress before finally committing themselves .
26 The general council of the Trades Union Congress , led by Walter Citrine and Ernest Bevin , warned MacDonald that there must be no tampering with the social services , least of all with the dole .
27 The ‘ institutional ’ barriers to price competition between employed and unemployed workers had arisen , of course , as a result of the pervasive powers of the trades union movement .
28 The Miners ' Federation , possibly because it was the largest and most militant component of the Trades Union Congress , gradually found itself isolated from the TUC General Council and its full-time officials in London .
29 In response , John Monks , the General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress , says there 'll be an emergency meeting of public sector unions to discuss the clampdown on pay rises .
30 Congress , trades councils are the grass roots of the trades union movement .
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