Example sentences of "workers ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most pay them on the same rates of pay , but because they lack seniority and are usually filling low-skilled , entry-level positions , seasonal workers ' actual earnings are usually lower than those of comparable regular workers . |
| 2 | Even if this is true — and it is disputed by animal and human studies — the argument overlooks the fact that reproductive defects may appear in workers ' female children . |
| 3 | With workers ' real gross incomes determined primarily by accumulation , higher taxes bit into take-home pay . |
| 4 | Workers ' real wages would have been reduced , provided money wages did not rise . |
| 5 | Chinese Peasants ' and Workers ' Democratic Party ( Lu Jiaxi ch . ) ; |
| 6 | social workers ' legal powers to intervene in abusive situation ; and |
| 7 | There were fierce disputes over the intelligentsia 's determination to exclude all but a token worker or two from their policy-making committees and to assert their own control over workers ' mutual support funds and the content of newspapers written for the workers . |
| 8 | Any fluctuations in measured unemployment which may , from time to time , be observed is the result of workers ' fluctuating preferences between work and leisure . |
| 9 | The fact is that the capable and intelligent workman , especially if skilled , at this time provided both the main prop of middle-class social control and industrial discipline and also the most active cadres of the workers ' collective self-defence . |
| 10 | This is because the older workers ' protected situation may make employers reluctant to hire them . |
| 11 | They support Cory Aquino ; but the barefoot health workers ' small supply of free drugs has been curtailed by her administration . |
| 12 | Addressing social policy , the plan contemplated workers ' profit-sharing schemes , increased taxation ( including higher taxes for the rich ) , compulsory retirement at 60 , pension reforms , and educational reforms . |
| 13 | Jair Meneguelli , leader of the Workers ' Central Union ( CUT ) , predicted a sharp drop in real wages and mass unemployment , and called on March 19 for nationwide protest demonstrations . |
| 14 | The Bolivian Workers ' Central ( Central Obrera Boliviana — COB ) proposed that the USA buy coca surpluses in order to avoid social conflict . |
| 15 | Jair Meneguelli , the leader of the Workers ' Central Union ( CUT ) , and Osmarino Amancio Rodriguez , Mendes 's successor as leader of the seringueiros , were joined by other union members , the wives of murdered union members , and environmentalists , in signing the Declaration of Xapuri which was read out over Mendes 's grave . |
| 16 | A 24-hour strike was called by the Bolivian Workers ' Central ( COB ) for April 9 , in protest against the anti-coca campaign and against new legislation for the mining sector , approved at the same session of the Congress , which it regarded as preparing the way for privatization . |
| 17 | Workers ' right to negotiate in cooperatives , mm ? |
| 18 | Once they have earned the exchange value of their labour power ( L ) in a given day , workers ' additional efforts are expropriated by capital owners as ‘ surplus value ’ ( S ) . |
| 19 | Rising wages were important for markets primarily because workers ' additional spending accounted for the bulk of the growth in consumption expenditure . |
| 20 | The forms of industrial conflict whereby workers ' interests are mobilised on a broader front include strikes and other kinds of industrial action , and here the role of trade unions as workers ' official representatives comes into play . |
| 21 | Whether it was the power of Haston 's argument or of his boot , the result was that Healy joined the Workers ' International League . |
| 22 | The militant Labour League remained within the Labour Party , while the Revolutionary Socialist Party , the Workers ' International League and the Revolutionary Socialist League remained independent . |
| 23 | During the first year of the war most of the Trotskyist groups in Britain collapsed and the Fourth International recognized the Workers ' International League as its official section . |
| 24 | But two years ago the idea popped up again , as part of the Lucas Aerospace workers ' alternative corporate plan . |
| 25 | That would square with UN workers ' various experience of the Khmers Rouges : in some areas local commanders were friendly , in others they murdered UN workers . |
| 26 | But for this to be achieved , workers ' personal feelings — and the myths and stereotypes which surround gay and lesbian sexuality — have to be openly expressed for guidance and training to be targeted effectively . |
| 27 | They found themselves among a throng of about 10 at a Workers ' Revolutionary Party meeting at a local community centre . |
| 28 | Although many Latin American Communist parties were split by Trotskyism , the only significant Trotskyist party in the region was the Bolivian Workers ' Revolutionary party ( POR ) , which became one of the two leading Fourth International affiliates in the world ( the other being in Sri Lanka ) . |
| 29 | These were the Nicaraguan Social Christian Party ( PSCN ) and the Democratic Conservative Party ( PCD ) , whose presidential candidates were respectively Erick Ramírez Benavente and Eduardo Molina ; the Marxist-Leninist Popular Action Movement ( MAP-ML ) ; the Social Conservative Party ( PCS ) ; the Independent Liberal Party for National Unity ( PLIUN ) ; the ( Trotskyist ) Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) ; the moderate Movement of Revolutionary Unity ( MUR ) with Moisés Hassan as its presidential candidate ; and the Central American Unionist Party ( PUCA ) . |
| 30 | Independents won seven seats and two were reserved for guerrillas who gave up their arms ; it was anticipated that these would be allocated to representatives of the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) , a guerrilla group which signed a peace pact with the government on Dec. 28 and was due to disarm in the far northern province of Sucre on Jan. 26 . |