Example sentences of "[art] [noun] unions ' [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Unity Trust , the trades unions ' bank , would support an employee share ownership scheme in any bid and its chairman Sir Dennis Landau has urged Mr Heseltine to look at the offer .
2 Unity Trust , the trades unions ' bank , would support an employee share ownership scheme in any bid and its chairman , Sir Dennis Landau , has urged Mr Heseltine to look at the offer .
3 ARFU officials and Wallabies can not fathom the Home Unions ' inflexibility on the issue , particularly since the ARFU allowed England to interrupt their tour of Australia last year to play two matches in Fiji before returning to play a Test in Sydney .
4 The efforts of the home unions ' committee appear to have worked — for now at least .
5 The Webbs explain that their original definition , relating the trade unions ' function to conditions of employment , implied that trade unions had always contemplated a perpetual continuance of the capitalist or wage system , whereas they had at various dates during the past century at any rate frequently had aspirations towards a revolutionary change in social and economic conditions .
6 How sweetly reasonable ; and , given the trade unions ' function as an implicated part of Capitalism , how impossible .
7 While it is arguable that the Labour Party dances to the trade unions ' tune , it is also the case that the special relationship facilitates bargaining .
8 For senior management an important lesson was the trade unions ' capacity to absorb change and to become its agents .
9 What the right-wingers are saying is that we will have the trade unions ' money but we will not give 'em the right to vote .
10 Whichever alternative is right , the trade unions ' bid for a share in the control of industry and , implicitly , to stand as an equal with Parliament as a body to which the nationalised industries should be accountable , could no longer be entertained .
11 PLANS to introduce a ‘ one member , one vote ’ system in key Labour elections were torpedoed yesterday — by the trade unions ' block vote .
12 That knowledge , extended through manufacturing and service industry would ensure generally that the wages suit was cut according to the profitability cloth ; and would remove from the operation of the national economy the inflationary propensity of the trade unions ' monopoly of the supply of labour and , with it , a main cause of the United Kingdom 's industrial debility .
13 Their case would have been vastly more plausible ; and a decisive electoral victory for the Labour Party might have been seen as a mandate for the promotion of industrial democracy in the trade unions ' model of it , and as an implicit declaration of public opinion in favour of the consequential abridgement or even abrogation of the rights of ownership .
14 The health unions ' refusal to return to the negotiating table proved a major mistake .
15 The production unions ' success had various causes , including an effective closed shop and weak newspaper managements .
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