Example sentences of "and [art] [adj] workers ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against the background of a broad spectrum of strikes organized on April 21 , April 27 and June 2 , 1989 , by the socialist General Workers ' Union ( Unión General de Trabajadores — UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( Comisiones Obreras — CCOO ) , the UGT executive decided for the first time on April 25 to give no recommendation to its members to vote for the PSOE in the European Parliament elections in June 1989 , on the grounds that a trade union could not be expected to support a government which pursued economic and social policies which were hostile to workers . |
| 2 | Throughout the summer Solchaga had been in fruitless negotiations for a " pact of progress " between the government and the two main unions — the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( CCOO ) . |
| 3 | The WTA matched the provision of its main competitors while undercutting their prices : holidays ranged from winter sports , world cruises ( three months , 165 guineas by freighter from Marseilles ) , tours of Lapland and biblical sites in Egypt , to courses on political theory at the international college in Elsinore and the Second Workers ' Olympiad held in Vienna in 1931 . |
| 4 | A 48-hour general strike for large pay increases was organized on March 14-15 by the Central Union of Workers ( Central Unica dos Trabalhadores — CUT ) and the General Workers ' Confederation ( Confederaçao Geral dos Trabalhadores — CGT ) . |
| 5 | State power was centralized in the hands of the Communist Party Central Committee , a powerful secret police was established , and the local workers ' councils or soviets ( which were the initial focus of the Bolshevik push for power ) were reduced to mere rubber stamps . |