Example sentences of "on workers [prep] " in BNC.

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1 " We are facing an organized attempt to remove by force and violence the country 's elected leaders , " he said , and he called on workers to " support the action of eliminating this fascist rebellion " .
2 So , while growth of the welfare state hardly loosened the compulsion on workers to work , it did undermine dependence on any particular employer and provided an additional source of conflict , in the course of which such greater independence could be exercised .
3 The only published study that can be directly compared with the Gardner report is that by Mc Laughlin et al on workers at nuclear facilities in Ontario ; they found no increased risk of leukaemia in the children of fathers working in these facilities .
4 Humphrey 's research on workers in the Brazilian motor industry in the 1970s shows that , in this particular case , a group of relatively highly paid workers in a modern sector of the economy did not behave as a labour aristocracy , but took on a vanguard role in providing political leadership for the working class as a whole ( Humphrey 1982 ) .
5 Employers brought maximum pressure to bear on workers in order to restore order : recalcitrant strikers faced lockouts .
6 Employers brought maximum pressure to bear on workers in order to restore order : recalcitrant strikers faced lock-outs .
7 Private steel companies sought injunctions against the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation who were calling on workers in the private sector of the steel industry to come out on strike to support workers in the public sector who were striking over pay .
8 It also develops and pilots a modified questionnaire designed to produce better information on the impact of job loss on workers in urban areas and how different types of people and households respond to the loss of income and employment .
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