Example sentences of "workers ' [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A POSTAL workers ' strike over planned job cuts spread through Paris yesterday and the state-run company La Poste said nearly half the capital 's postmen were not doing their rounds . |
| 2 | They relate to a crackdown on a shipyard workers ' strike in 1970 in which at least 25 people died . |
| 3 | Moreover , the direct dependence of the war effort upon industrial output rendered workers ' resort to the strike weapon even more devastating than in peacetime , and from the summer of 1915 there was a resurgence of industrial stoppages . |
| 4 | It is still the case that social workers ' reliance on the legislature or the courts to solve the problems posed by the varying use of secure accommodation is ineffective in improving the allocation process . |
| 5 | The Lucas workers ' Centre for Alternative Industrial and Technological Systems and the North East London Polytechnic bought a secondhand Bristol bus and converted it . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | The prevailing view of such work group resistance has often been that it stems from workers ' misunderstanding of management 's intentions . |
| 9 | Our report emphasised the rationality of workers ' behaviour in relation to their own goals and working situation . |
| 10 | Thus the project wishes to focus on additiorial areas of injury including , managerial strategies , that is , the methods used to communicate the goals of the enterprise to the workforce ; the work process , that is , the distribution of power and authority in the workplace and the divisions of the workers on the basis of income and status ; migration , that is , the study of worker satisfaction , in as much as a stable working population is an indication of employee loyalty ; ethnic and religious divisions , that is , whether religion and nationality was used to divide workers by allocating jobs on the basis of these factors ; and , lastly , women and trade unionism , that is , the degree of workers ' identification with an alternative loyalty structure to that of the enterprise . |
| 11 | Gorby ! ’ in the largest protest since the suppressed workers ' uprising of 1953 . |
| 12 | THE HARDLINE leadership in East Germany is today under greater pressure than ever following the weekend demonstrations in East Berlin — the biggest show of social unrest in the East German capital since the doomed workers ' uprising of June 1953 . |
| 13 | But they rushed through another resolution surrendering control of the 60,000-strong Workers ' Guard to the government . |
| 14 | In supporting this report we will be setting a future agenda which should go some way to extending working , workers ' protection for our members . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Neither party offered a workable plan to rescue Serbia 's crumbling economy , but the SPS attracted strong workers ' support by promising continued full employment . |
| 18 | the internally oriented bourgeoisie possesses an objective interest in wage-led rather than externally-determined demand for its products … productivity increases will extend workers ' consumption into new commodities that were once considered luxury goods ( motorcycles , housing materials , and small appliances ) , which in turn will provide new areas of investment for the indigenous bourgeoisie . |
| 19 | Clarke refused to concede an automatic pay system for the future , or linkage of ambulance workers ' pay with that for other rescue services . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The reason for companies ' single-minded loyalty to their workers is fading , as is the reason for workers ' loyalty to their firms . |
| 22 | We then move on , in Chapter 4 , to examine in detail the various arguments put forward about the likely effects of technical change on workers ' experience of their jobs . |
| 23 | Because of the early onset of modern economic development in these two countries workers ' experience with industrial capitalism was slower and the transition period longer than was the case in most of Northern and Central Europe ( Kassalow , 1982 ) . |
| 24 | The first few months of life in the community were dominated by support workers ' sense of heavy responsibility about the twin tasks of meeting the women 's physical and medical needs and , at the same time , enabling them to be as independent as possible . |
| 25 | Employers in this period were either providing from the resources of their businesses or demanding from the state such measures as pensions ( which it was hoped would remove from workers worry about their future in old-age , and would enable employers to dismiss less efficient older workers with clear consciences ) , sickness benefit and medical care ( which would enable them to recover more quickly and fully from sickness ) and , more occasionally , unemployment benefit , which it was also hoped would increase the workers ' sense of security . |
| 26 | The continuing silence of the Transport and General Workers ' Union over the selection of drivers for redundancy by Tarmac Roadstone Ltd on a quarry-by-quarry basis , resulted in a Nottingham industrial tribunal deciding that the company had acted fairly . |
| 27 | I 'd heard a lot about er af er I 've been in the Transport and General Workers ' Union as a shop steward and so forth like that . |
| 28 | An indefinite " strategic " strike by 40,000 members of the Metal Workers ' Union of Sao Paulo began on April 15 , closing all but one of Brazil 's main car manufacturers . |
| 29 | Colleagues , G M B Scotland welcomes and congratulates the Central Executive 's initiative in bringing forward the of this Congress the big important debate of this Congress between ourselves and the Transport and General Workers ' Union at some time in the future . |
| 30 | 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 . |