Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] workers ' " in BNC.

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1 UP leaders Gabriel Jaime Santamaria and Benito Súarez Garcia had been murdered in November 1989 and February 1990 , and the murder of agricultural workers ' trade union leader Sebastian Mosquera had led to a strike of 26,000 banana workers in September 1989 .
2 In their study of affluent workers ' attitudes to work John Goldthorpe and his colleagues asked three questions designed specifically to measure the extent to which industrial work is experienced as intrinsically unsatisfying .
3 The second main study of industrial workers ' attitudes was carried out by Brown and Levin in the early 1970s , with a national sample of over 2,000 weekly-paid workers .
4 Is the Minister aware of the continuing violence against rural workers ' leaders and their supporters in Brazil and of the fact that according to recent evidence from the Brazilian Church 's Pastoral Land Commission since 1964 , 1,667 rural workers have been murdered , that there have been 23 trials and only 13 sentences ?
5 Interviewed on the radio on Nov. 2 , Demirel criticized support given by Democratic Left Party ( DSP ) leader Bulent Ecevit to proposals for the creation of a Turkish-controlled buffer zone in northern Iraq in order to allow the activities of Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) guerrillas to be supressed .
6 It accused Mr Zhao , who was sacked as party secretary in June , of encouraging the formation of independent workers ' unions during student-led protests .
7 We must remember that , when we talk about the desirability of improving workers ' conditions .
8 Labour Party plans for a national minimum wage were criticised by the AEU engineering union , which fears an erosion of skilled workers ' pay differentials .
9 Our ongoing successes with and the acquired rights directive will eventually put a halt to the attacks on public workers ' rights .
10 The parallel with developments in the documentation of casual workers ' conditions of engagement [ see Chapter 6 ] are to be noted .
11 Although many sons have moved up , the homogeneous character of manual workers ' origins contrasts starkly with the middle class .
12 This may well reflect the effect of the recession on manual workers ' perceptions of work — the importance of being in employment even if this means changing home .
13 The demonstration was sponsored by some 70 organizations , including SOS-Racisme , the League of Human Rights , the Federation of Immigrant Workers ' Solidarity Organizations ( FASTI ) and the Movement against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples ( MRAP ) , as well as left-wing political parties and trade unions .
14 She suggests that this is a hard-line criterion against natural parents which does not take account of social workers ' failure to encourage regular contact between natural parents and children in care .
15 They hailed the Paris Commune of 1870–1 as the first authentic workers ' revolution and a prototype of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ , the transitional form of strong workers ' state which would have to exist between the shattering of capitalist control and the eventual abolition of all class divisions under advanced communism .
16 There was a phrase screeched into the microphone by a hoarse-voiced member of Socialist Workers ' Students ' Organization : ‘ The government must be deaf , dumb and blind if they do not see the madness of this war . ’
17 The fact that employers were organised by industry had a feedback effect on the structure of manual workers ' trade unions .
18 This tension surfaced in particularly acute form on the morrow of the first proletarian revolution as the Bolsheviks attempted to construct a system of coordinated workers ' control over industry in face of the proliferation of relatively independent factory committees .
19 Births in manual workers ' families , particularly to women in class IV and V , fell by a third .
20 rate of increase in productive workers ' consumption declines , whilst G remains constant , then there will emerge the surplus of unsold consumption goods that she postulated .
21 Excluded from the political process in their newly adopted lands , where they were not allowed to vote , and anxious to ensure a higher standard of living in the New World than they had enjoyed at home , they were instrumental in the creation of early workers ' organisations and political parties in Latin America .
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