Example sentences of "workers ' [noun] 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 | Adopt , with the exception of Britain , a charter guaranteeing workers ' rights in the single European market to be created in 1992 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We talked yesterday about a lot about Europe about the importance of workers ' rights in Europe , but here we can expand upon this . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Our report emphasised the rationality of workers ' behaviour in relation to their own goals and working situation . |
| 8 | It issued a strike threat in support of demands for rises in pensions and wages , a programme for dealing with unemployment and in defence of workers ' interests in the context of privatization . |
| 9 | To defuse this near state of lawlessness , the Interior Ministry has ordered the abolition of the workers ' militia in factories . |
| 10 | To defuse this near state of lawlessness , the Interior Ministry has ordered the abolition of the workers ' militia in factories . |
| 11 | To defuse what is almost a state of lawlessness , the Interior Ministry has ordered the abolition of the workers ' militia in factories . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The organizers had invited representatives of the rival Yedinstvo Internationalist Movement [ described on p. 36855 as the " Inter-Front " group ] and the Gagauz Khalky movement [ see p. 37047 ] , and of workers ' committees in Tiraspol . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 'm Joe , a member of the cocoa workers ' union in Ghana . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You may like to consider the fact that readers of the popular press contributed millions to BandAid , SportAid , Comic Relief etc ; have taken solidarity action in support of trade unionists in South Africa and Namibia ; are informed about workers ' conditions in the same industries in the Far East and so on . |
| 22 | And the workers ' skills in the giant rolling mills and small cutlery works add even more to the value of the products . |
| 23 | Surely in these days of environmental awareness and urban transport problems , companies such as Rolls Royce ( and Lucas ) should invest their technological knowledge and workers ' skills in such things as bicycle components , where there is a growing demand . |
| 24 | 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 : |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | After moving to Dixton Manor near Winchcombe in 1882 , she continued her educational work , helping to set up workers ' colleges in Cheltenham and organizing technical education in the Winchcombe district on behalf of Gloucestershire county council . |
| 27 | One Vietnamese was killed and four received gunshot wounds in an incident at a foreign workers ' hostel in Sofia on March 17 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The first steps of the new government included decrees on land , peace , the rights of national minorities and workers ' control in industry . |
| 30 | 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 . |