Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] workers ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transport & General Workers ' Union deputy secretary Jack Adams warned that his members would ballot for industrial action if there were compulsory redundancies . |
| 2 | trade unions : General & Municipal Worker 's Union National Union of Railwaymen Transport & General Workers ' Union Union of Shop Distributive & Allied Workers United Road Transport Union . |
| 3 | It has negotiated an agreement with the Transport & General Workers ' Union which places Driver Hire on the union 's fair agency list . |
| 4 | The membership remained largely moribund until the First World War , although the title of the union had been somewhat pretentiously changed to the National Agricultural Labourers ' and Rural Workers ' Union ( N A L R W U ) in 1912 . |
| 5 | The Bakers , Food and Allied Workers ' Union had threatened a series of one-day strikes . |
| 6 | Later that month , railway workers belonging to the Swaziland Transport and Allied Workers ' Union struck for two days over union recognition . |
| 7 | He has also rationalized the range of wine and spirits stocks to reduce the stockturn ratio , introduced purchasing specifications , tightened up on the ordering system , established a fixed asset register and got the Accommodation Manager to prepare a five-year rolling plan for plant and equipment maintenance , as well as tightening up on staff overtime and casual workers ' pay . |
| 8 | From 1980 onwards I went on to become involved in the Black Workers ' Group , unions — NALGO and ACTTS — and more recently , the Lesbian and Gay Workers ' Group in our workplace . |
| 9 | This feels wholesome and gives me the confidence to take up issues of racism and sexism in the Lesbian and Gay Workers ' Group and issues of sexism and heterosexism in the Black Workers ' Group , within the organization we work for . |
| 10 | There was a greater flow of information , more exciting debates internally , and with the formation of the Black Workers ' Group and later on the Lesbian and Gay Workers ' Group , more politically aware people began to organize around issues of their own oppression . |
| 11 | Setting up the Lesbian and Gay Workers ' Group was very different . |
| 12 | Main guerrilla groups such as the FARC and the ELN , however , continued campaigns of economic sabotage and showed little interest in the government 's offer of peace talks or of following the example of the Maoist Popular Liberation Army ( EPL ) and Revolutionary Workers ' Party ( PRT ) which had demobilized and taken up seats in the National Constituent Assembly [ see p. 37958 ) . |
| 13 | One of these was James Larkin 's Irish Transport and General Workers ' Union , the ITGWU . |
| 14 | Mr Scargill 's election to Parliament would acutely embarrass Mr Kinnock , but would pave the way for the NUM 's merger with the Transport and General Workers ' Union . |
| 15 | The Transport and General Workers ' Union , which has the largest block vote ( 1.3m ) , is abstaining . |
| 16 | Ron Todd , Transport and General Workers ' Union general secretary , was applauded as he reaffirmed his union 's commitment to unilateralism . |
| 17 | For example , Ron Todd of the Transport and General Workers ' Union blamed the systematic bias and ignorance of the courts , and the new freedom to dismiss strikers granted by this Government , for the failure of the dock strike which was called by his union this summer . |
| 18 | Ron Todd , general secretary of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said they found in this year 's dock strike that some judges had changed little since the days of the Tolpuddle Martyrs or Taff Vale . |
| 19 | Bill Morris , of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , also blamed government neglect of public services for the tragedies at Lockerbie , Clapham and Zeebrugge . |
| 20 | In spite of threats of defiance , court-imposed fines were collected from the NUM , NGA , and Transport and General Workers ' Union . |
| 21 | His chief challenger is Mr Paul Davies , a Transport and General Workers ' Union district official . |
| 22 | The Transport and General Workers ' Union complained last night after a driver employed at RAF Stafford died from a heart attack . |
| 23 | When the result was officially declared at a general committee meeting of the Birkenhead party last night , Mr Field had already won the first round of the ballot in the individual members section with 159 votes against his two challengers , Mr Paul Davies , a local Transport and General Workers ' union official , who secured 75 votes and Militant supporter , Ms Kathy Wilson , with 48 votes . |
| 24 | Mr Field lost the nomination to a local Transport and General Workers ' union official , Mr Paul Davies , because he failed to secure sufficient votes in the trade union section . |
| 25 | The charge of putting profits before passenger protection was also made by the Transport and General Workers ' Union , the aviation industry 's biggest trade union , in a booklet launching its Aviation Security Charter . |
| 26 | A minute 's silence was held in memory of the Lockerbie victims when the charity was launched yesterday at Transport House in London , headquarters of the Transport and General Workers ' Union . |
| 27 | Mr Kinnock 's own union , the 1.1 million-strong Transport and General Workers ' Union , yesterday confirmed that it is to sue Mr Paddy Ashdown and six other Liberal Democrat leaders over a claim in a party newspaper that the T&G had advised members in 29 key marginals to vote Liberal Democrat rather than Labour . |
| 28 | This was beginning to revive , with new affiliations like the Amalgamated Engineering Union and the Irish Transport and General Workers ' Union ( ITGWU ) . |
| 29 | Allegations of tapping of strikers and their leaders include claims that , during the General Strike in 1926 , Ernest Bevin , then leader of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , had his telephone tapped ( Post Office Engineering Union , 1980 : 15 ) . |
| 30 | There was the daily undignified spectacle of Sir Clive Rose of the Civil Contingencies Unit meeting with Alex Kitson of the Transport and General Workers ' Union to discuss breaches of the union 's voluntary code on picketing during the lorry-driver 's dispute . |