Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [noun sg] workers [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose he had forgotten that when Bill Jordan , president of the engineering workers ' union , asked him during the 1987 election campaign to announce then that he would hold a referendum on unilateralism after the election , he declined and replied that people would come round to it once they understood . |
| 2 | It was made clear to us that Operation ‘ Brisket ’ for the road haulage dispute , ‘ Bittern ’ for the rapidly growing ambulance drivers ' dispute , and ‘ Nimrod ’ in the case of the water workers ' action , were all long on detailed planning , but short on how much could actually be done in a major dispute . |
| 3 | Will Thorne , leader of the Gas Workers ' Union , moved a resolution : While the conference unanimously supported Treasury or rate-financed school meals , only a minority was prepared to let the state share parental responsibilities more fully . |
| 4 | A member for sixty-nine years of the Art Workers ' Guild , Frampton had inherited from his father a strong feeling for materials and a commitment to meticulous workmanship . |
| 5 | The badly beaten bodies of Bertil Whinberg , chair of the Building Workers ' Union and a member of the executive of Sweden 's ruling Social Democratic Labour Party , and Ove Frederiksson , head of the Wood Industry Worker 's Union , were found in a gravel pit on the outskirts of the city . |
| 6 | Bosnia and Serbia possessed rich forest resources , which were used to provide charcoal for the metal workers ' furnaces as well as timber for the construction of houses . |
| 7 | An indefinite " strategic " strike by 40,000 members of the Metal Workers ' Union of Sao Paulo began on April 15 , closing all but one of Brazil 's main car manufacturers . |
| 8 | Before the war , he had been one of the most prominent members of the Dock workers ' Guild , acting as principal deputy to their father , the Chairman , but after he was disabled and discharged from the army , he was forced to take other work , helping Florrie to run their Aunt Emily 's corner grocery shop . |
| 9 | In fact , little is known about drought 's most likely victims , who often live beyond the reach of the aid workers ' vehicles . |
| 10 | An interlude of social peace had been forged of which Jack Jones of the Transport Workers ' Union was the architect . |
| 11 | Supporting the leadership , Garfield Davies , general secretary of the shop workers ' union Usdaw , said delegates should not forget the objective was to create a nuclear-free world , not just a nuclear-free Britain . |
| 12 | But Garfield Davies , general secretary of the shop workers ' union USDAW , said non-payment campaigners were giving false hope to the vulnerable . |
| 13 | Ron Todd , the general secretary of the transport workers ' union , said that today 's vote on the multilaterist nuclear defence policy would not yield the ‘ massive and overwhelming ’ majority predicted by right-wingers , and he warned that party leaders could not expect everybody to ‘ goose-step ’ in the same direction once the policy had been carried . |
| 14 | THE first split in the Government 's ranks over the ambulance workers dispute appeared last night when it was disclosed that Mr David Trippier , the Environment Minister , had written to the Health Secretary saying he could see the logic in the ambulance workers ' case . |
| 15 | Sir George Askwith , the Board of Trade 's Chief Industrial Commissioner , quickly persuaded Devonport to meet Harry Gosling and Harry Orbell , an influential official of the London Dockers , who were representative of both the executive of the Transport Workers ' Federation and the workers ' side of the Port of London Authority and to assure them that existing agreements would be maintained . |
| 16 | From 1885 to 1888 and in 1894 he was a committee member of the Art Workers ' Guild . |
| 17 | In 1884 he became a founder member of the Art Workers ' Guild . |
| 18 | I 'm Joe , a member of the cocoa workers ' union in Ghana . |
| 19 | Last night , speaking in Brighton , Jack Adams , a national officer of the transport workers ' union , said directors had warned that , although they had no plans to shut Dagenham , employees themselves could close it if their work record did not improve . |