Example sentences of "workers [unc] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I suppose he had forgotten that when Bill Jordan , president of the engineering workers ' union , asked him during the 1987 election campaign to announce then that he would hold a referendum on unilateralism after the election , he declined and replied that people would come round to it once they understood . |
| 32 | For example , Ron Todd of the Transport and General Workers ' Union blamed the systematic bias and ignorance of the courts , and the new freedom to dismiss strikers granted by this Government , for the failure of the dock strike which was called by his union this summer . |
| 33 | Ron Todd , general secretary of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said they found in this year 's dock strike that some judges had changed little since the days of the Tolpuddle Martyrs or Taff Vale . |
| 34 | Bill Morris , of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , also blamed government neglect of public services for the tragedies at Lockerbie , Clapham and Zeebrugge . |
| 35 | Car workers ' unions are today expected to demand a wage rise of at least 10 per cent for the Ford motor company 's 31,000 hourly paid workers , when negotiations open in London . |
| 36 | AS DELEGATES were preparing for the congress of the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party which begins today , two of the most conservative factions yesterday issued an open challenge to the party 's reformist leadership . |
| 37 | For similar reasons , conservatives are also reluctant to disband the discredited Workers ' Guard . |
| 38 | Similarly , he used his connections with the promotion of adult education in the Workers ' Educational Association ( WEA ) and the Extra-Mural Department of London University to establish a joint and full-time crash course for a Diploma in International Affairs in the London Institution of World Affairs , of which he was the president until his death . |
| 39 | They support Cory Aquino ; but the barefoot health workers ' small supply of free drugs has been curtailed by her administration . |
| 40 | But Garfield Davies , general secretary of the shop workers ' union USDAW , said non-payment campaigners were giving false hope to the vulnerable . |
| 41 | AN AMBULANCE workers ' union leader yesterday accused Kenneth Clarke , the Secretary of State for Health , of intransigence , as union officials prepared for today 's meeting at Acas . |
| 42 | Gorby ! ’ in the largest protest since the suppressed workers ' uprising of 1953 . |
| 43 | East Germany 's workers ' militias , which have 400,000 members , are standing by all over the country to help to clamp down in case of trouble . |
| 44 | A COURT in Turin , the home of Italy 's Fiat group , declined at the weekend to try Fiat 's chief executive and three senior managers on charges of violating workers ' safety statutes , citing fears of an unspecified ‘ threat to public order ’ . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | DESIGNER SOCIALISM arrived in Hungary at 17 minutes past eight on Saturday night , when delegates to the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party congress voted overwhelmingly to drop ‘ Workers ’ from their title . |
| 47 | Sherif Xemgin , for the Kurdish Workers ' Association — a group to which Mr Tyiven belonged — said the death showed the fear that gripped refugees . |
| 48 | Last night however , crowds gathered round the workers ' militia standing by their trucks , trying to include them — sometimes successfully — in conversations about the need for change . |
| 49 | A posse of huge anti-fascists from Ruskin , the workers ' college , disguised themselves as undergraduates and infiltrated the Examination Schools building where the event is traditionally held . |
| 50 | But the building no longer belonged to the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party , and the apparatchiks , once the backbone of the party state , were contemplating the possibility of unemployment for the first time in their lives . |
| 51 | But they rushed through another resolution surrendering control of the 60,000-strong Workers ' Guard to the government . |
| 52 | AS 70,000 East Germans streamed through Leipzig on Monday night in the largest demonstration the German Democratic Republic has ever seen , a few marchers approached the line of the workers ' militia units , on standby in a side-street there . |
| 53 | Just an hour or so earlier , many demonstrators had been worried by rumours that the workers ' militia might open fire on the crowds . |
| 54 | They heard Jack Jones , the former transport workers ' union leader , condemn British pensions as the worst in Europe and denounce means-testing for pensioners . |
| 55 | BUDAPEST — The Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party , extinguished at the weekend by its congress , rose from the ashes yesterday in Budapest 's communist heartland , the industrial district of Csepel , Imre Karacs writes . |
| 56 | It accused Mr Zhao , who was sacked as party secretary in June , of encouraging the formation of independent workers ' unions during student-led protests . |
| 57 | Polls show a surge in support to 12 per cent for the left-wing Workers ' Party ( PT ) , whose candidate , Luis Inacio ‘ Lula ’ da Silva , could supplant the main social democratic contender , Leonel Brizola , and emerge as Mr Collor 's rival in the run-off . |
| 58 | Strong words were exchanged with the latter band by the organisers , who demanded a quick piece of historical rewriting to expunge this accidental slur on the workers ' state . |
| 59 | Hungary appeared to take a step in the right direction when its rulers voted to transmute the old Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party into a new , reformist-led Socialist Party — and in effect divorced the party from the state . |
| 60 | He belongs to the General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) , which has quarrelled with the Socialist Party . |