Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the workers [unc] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 On June 18 the EDUP ( until May 1990 known as the Workers ' Party of Ethiopia — WPE ) was declared illegal .
3 On the night of the killings a dozen armed masked men broke into the workers ' dormitories .
4 He deserted the safe cloisters of that college in order to teach for the Workers ' Educational Association : he had been leader of the Labour group on Oxford City Council since 1934 .
5 The country worker who came to town lost much of his independence , in spite of the long-established guilds , which had existed from the past to watch over the workers ' interests .
6 At the Home Farm Trust , run by the Workers ' Educational Association , Medau classes for residents now go into their tenth year .
7 In this latter meaning , ‘ the freedom of labour ’ was already partially overcome by the workers ' organisations in the capitalist period , when the trade unions partly abolished competition between workers by uniting them and making them stronger in their struggle against the capitalist class …
8 This new legislation would create , in particular : a right for users of public services to restrain unlawful industrial action ; the provision of a right for union members to obtain more information on their unions ' financial affairs , including union leaders ' salaries ; protection against the use of what are called ‘ check-off ’ arrangements under which subscriptions to the union are deducted from the workers ' pay ; and greater freedom for people to join the union of their choice .
9 Instead of relying upon the workers ' militia and the election of officers , Trotsky and his acolytes created a Red Army modelled on thoroughly traditional lines .
10 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 .
11 A useful first step is to dispose of the workers ' own mother with her propensity to produce competing brood .
12 Assuming that no mature way can be found to speak from the workers ' culture or meaning system , as opposed to breaking it down and imposing on it other meaning systems such as that espoused by management , then passive individuals will be fostered .
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