Example sentences of "workers ['s] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | They relate to a crackdown on a shipyard workers ' strike in 1970 in which at least 25 people died . |
| 2 | On 28 September 1911 Hermann Jochade , secretary of the International Transport Workers ' Federation in a letter to its secretary Arthur Cannon expressed his surprise at the branch 's actions , and noted " I have myself investigated the workings of the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union , as I have done with other unions connected with the International Transport Workers ' Federation in Great Britain , and have pleasure in stating and testifying that the Seamen 's Union is one of the best organised and conducted of all unions I have made enquiries into . |
| 3 | On 28 September 1911 Hermann Jochade , secretary of the International Transport Workers ' Federation in a letter to its secretary Arthur Cannon expressed his surprise at the branch 's actions , and noted " I have myself investigated the workings of the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union , as I have done with other unions connected with the International Transport Workers ' Federation in Great Britain , and have pleasure in stating and testifying that the Seamen 's Union is one of the best organised and conducted of all unions I have made enquiries into . |
| 4 | Our report emphasised the rationality of workers ' behaviour in relation to their own goals and working situation . |
| 5 | The group 's philosophy is that computers should increase , rather than decrease , workers ' participation in industry , For example , large cooperatives could install a computer in canteens , on which workers could experiment with different ways of management , or discover various implications of increasing wages , for example . |
| 6 | Similarly , a good deal of attention has been directed to the important and topical issues of workers ' participation in enterprise decision-making , along with ‘ international ’ studies concerned with the operation and labour relations implications of multinational corporations . |
| 7 | On average workers ' pay in Belorussia had dropped by 1922 to 73.5 per cent of the 1913 level , but in 1923 it was to rise to 112.5 per cent . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 'm Joe , a member of the cocoa workers ' union in Ghana . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In many ways it was a sad ending for a tutor who had given some twenty years to the cause of workers ' education in the county and perhaps the most sincere and apposite appreciation of her many qualities came most appropriately from a member of the Kettering branch : |
| 14 | The existence of Ulster 's British majority posed a similar difficulty although it was not fully recognised at Westminster until the general strike organised by the Ulster Workers ' Council in May 1974 . |
| 15 | One Vietnamese was killed and four received gunshot wounds in an incident at a foreign workers ' hostel in Sofia on March 17 . |
| 16 | They had wrested factory management from the hands of the very right-wing Congress of Mining Industrialists which had disallowed even neutral forms of workers ' control in 1917 . |
| 17 | The first steps of the new government included decrees on land , peace , the rights of national minorities and workers ' control in industry . |
| 18 | But it would be quite wrong to ascribe the failure to take socialist transformation further at this stage by establishing workers ' control in the nationalised industries to ‘ betrayal ’ on the part of the parliamentary leadership . |
| 19 | Hughes ( 1960 ) noted what he called ‘ a failure of initiative and imagination on the part of trade unions ’ concerning workers ' control in the nationalised industries generally , a ‘ failure ’ which was not really made good over the '60s . |
| 20 | Paisley played a part in the Ulster Workers Council but , like the other politicians , he had had to be forced by the workers ' action in starting the strike despite his reservations . |
| 21 | From 1980 onwards I went on to become involved in the Black Workers ' Group , unions — NALGO and ACTTS — and more recently , the Lesbian and Gay Workers ' Group in our workplace . |
| 22 | Again , and like the Workers ' Party in the same election , they were disadvantaged . |
| 23 | 5.2 ‘ Corner ’ lodgers in a workers ' flat in St Petersburg in the 1890s . |
| 24 | With 36 per cent of the manual workers ' vote in 1987 the party 's share of the working-class vote was the highest for any post-war election . |
| 25 | Well , with the greatest respect , the ambulance workers ' argument in the question of a pay review er is a different argument totally . |
| 26 | Hayling had introduced Casares-Roach to Walsh after meeting her at a Ford workers ' conference in Benidorm where she had been the translator . |
| 27 | The ‘ council movement ’ was especially vigorous , and was widely debated among socialists in the years immediately preceding and following the First World War ( Renner , 1921 ; Pribicevic , 1959 ) ; and more recently it again aroused growing interest as a result of the experience of workers ' self-management in Yugoslavia , some tentative steps in that direction in other East European countries during the 1970s , and the formulation of ideas about ‘ participatory democracy ’ that arose from the new social movements of the late 1960s . |
| 28 | THE POLGARS live on the eighth floor of a block of flats on Semmelweis Street , a workers ' area in Budapest . |