Example sentences of "[prep] the workers [unc] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days later the official trade union movement , the Mozambique Workers ' Organization , previously silent on the strikes , came out in support of the workers ' actions , saying : " We consider that most of the strikers ' grievances are justified . " |
| 2 | At the international level by world revolution which , by breaking the isolation of the workers ' states , will provide an effective antidote to bureaucratization . |
| 3 | If a major feature of the Co-operative Commonwealth was to be the ownership and control by the workforce of the particular enterprise employing them , if , in other words , it was to comprehend authentic industrial democracy , then the abrogation in 1875 of the workers ' rights and privileges of the workers employed in factories producing goods for sale in co-operative retail stores was a misdirection of the Movement . |
| 4 | The strike was called off on Feb. 21 after all 20 of the workers ' claims were resolved in negotiations with the government . |
| 5 | At the same time he announced that economic austerity measures , including a freeze on public sector promotions , were to be " reconsidered " ; this had also been one of the demands of the workers ' organizations . |
| 6 | Of the workers ' representatives , three were elected from the shop floor , one from the administrative workers and one from the technicians , engineers and graduate staff . |
| 7 | The weavers ' yard close by has been a fine example of the early wool trade , with the workers ' cottages down one side and the spinning and weaving loft up a wooden stair on the other . |
| 8 | On the night of the killings a dozen armed masked men broke into the workers ' dormitories . |
| 9 | It looks like any high street sweatshop except for the light streaming through the huge windows looking across Paris , the dummies bearing the names an exact shapes of various famous models and customers , and the quiet pride in the workers ' faces as they attach elaborately-tooled gold leather to a bustier , hand-embroidered velvet details to a pocket flap , a mink trim to an underskirt . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As soon as the authorities were in no position to prevent the lower classes expressing their wishes — in 1905 , in the elections to the workers ' curias for the Duma elections of 1906 , 1907 and 1912 , and in 1917 itself — their demands in large measure coincided with those of the major revolutionary parties . |
| 12 | Congress , this legislation is th yet another attack on the workers ' rights , wages and ability to organize . |
| 13 | 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 … |