Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] workers [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then merged his organisation with the British Seafarers to form the Amalgamated Marine Workers ' Union , enjoying a brief relationship with its leaders Lewis and Shinwell until 1925 when he abandoned them and threw in his lot with Wilson as an official of the NSFU . |
| 2 | SOME SKILLED WORKERS ' MYTHS OF MANAGEMENT : A SAMPLE OF SHOP FLOOR CULTURE |
| 3 | SOME UNSKILLED WORKERS ' IMAGES OF MANAGEMENT : THREE MYTHS OF RELATEDNESS |
| 4 | On the other hand , even such seasonal workers ' commitment to work , needs and interests are likely to be different from those of regular workers ; this despite the fact that their pay or access to fringe benefits can be inferior to those of regular workers . |
| 5 | The figures in Table 2.4 demonstrate the vital importance of overtime and other payments for the male manual workers ' earnings ( over 25 per cent ) and their limited significance for non-manual workers . |
| 6 | The quasi-liberal Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party , which topped the poll six weeks ago , is now one seat short of an overall majority in the Congress of Deputies . |
| 7 | The quasi-liberal Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party , which topped the poll six weeks ago , is now one seat short of an overall majority in the Congress of Deputies . |
| 8 | The narrow parliamentary majority won by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) in the Oct. 29 general election remained in jeopardy , following a Constitutional Court ruling on Feb. 15 which confirmed the election results in eight of the nine seats still at issue in the south-eastern constituency of Murcia , but " suspended " the results regarding the ninth seat pending fresh elections in two polling areas . |
| 9 | In the continuing controversy over election results in a small number of parliamentary seats [ see pp. 36983-84 for October 1989 general election ] , the regional High Court in Murcia on March 2 awarded the one seat still at issue there back to the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) . |
| 10 | Prime Minister Felipe González , the leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) , on April 5 won a vote of confidence in the Congress of Deputies , concluding five months of uncertainty over the exact distribution of seats in the 350-seat Congress resulting from the October general election , after which recounts and repeat elections had been necessary in a number of constituencies . |
| 11 | The distribution of seats in the Congress of Deputies was Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) 175 seats , combined opposition parties 175 . |
| 12 | The Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( Partido Socialista Obrero Español — PSOE ) was returned to government in a general election on June 22 , 1986 [ see p. 34821 ] , winning 184 seats in the Congress of Deputies . |
| 13 | The Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) held its 32nd congress in Madrid on Nov. 9-11 . |
| 14 | Guerra announced his decision unexpectedly at a regional congress of the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) in Cáceres ( Extremadura ) ; he retained the post of PSOE deputy secretary-general . |
| 15 | At six ceremonies across the country , nearly 2,000 EPL combatants handed over their weapons to a commission led by the Socialist International and the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party . |
| 16 | A Cabinet reshuffle announced on March 11 was the most extensive since the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) first took office in 1982 . |
| 17 | In elections on May 26 for municipal administrations and for 13 of Spain 's 17 regional governments the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) slightly increased its overall support but lost control of several large cities . |
| 18 | Having been overruled by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) hierarchy and the spending ministries on requested budget cuts , Solchaga had regained the initiative through these measures of financial and trade liberalization . |
| 19 | At a rally in Madrid 's main bullring to celebrate the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) 's 10 years in power , Prime Minister Felipe González Márquez confirmed on Oct. 25 that he would stand for re-election for a fourth term . |
| 20 | The leading rural workers ' unions refused to sign the government 's " agrarian reconciliation " agreement in September on the grounds that it was an attempt to arrest agrarian reform , did not address the needs of the rural population — an estimated 170,000 families lacked sufficient land to maintain a subsistence living — and favoured private land tenure . |
| 21 | In April 1921 fifty delegates from England and Wales set up a national organization , the National Unemployed Workers ' Committee Movement ( NUWCM ) , with Wal Hannington as national organizer . |
| 22 | As already stressed , the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement and , its mentor , the Communist Party of Great Britain , failed to find the revolutionary spirit which they felt was being dampened and re-channelled by the Labour Party . |
| 23 | Our second decision concerned Mrs Kate Duncan who , as a member of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , wanted to give a speech outside an unemployment training centre . |
| 24 | While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians . |
| 25 | Erm well there was er there was the local organization for the unemployed , the national union , the er national unemployed workers ' movement . |
| 26 | These demonstrations were organised by the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , and their actions illustrate one of the major differences between responses to unemployment in the 1920s and 1930s and current responses . |
| 27 | A new trade union , the National Free Workers ' Association , was set up in September . |
| 28 | Against the background of a broad spectrum of strikes organized on April 21 , April 27 and June 2 , 1989 , by the socialist General Workers ' Union ( Unión General de Trabajadores — UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( Comisiones Obreras — CCOO ) , the UGT executive decided for the first time on April 25 to give no recommendation to its members to vote for the PSOE in the European Parliament elections in June 1989 , on the grounds that a trade union could not be expected to support a government which pursued economic and social policies which were hostile to workers . |
| 29 | The congress agreed that PSOE members need no longer be affiliated to the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) , a decision reflecting recent disagreements between the PSOE and the UGT , and formally ending the once close relationship between the two organizations . |
| 30 | Throughout the summer Solchaga had been in fruitless negotiations for a " pact of progress " between the government and the two main unions — the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( CCOO ) . |