Example sentences of "[verb] on workers " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers brought maximum pressure to bear on workers in order to restore order : recalcitrant strikers faced lockouts . |
| 2 | Employers brought maximum pressure to bear on workers in order to restore order : recalcitrant strikers faced lock-outs . |
| 3 | The tax burden imposed on workers to pay for welfare services opened up a gap between the cost of labour to the employer ( the wage gross of employers ' and employees ' social security contributions and of income tax ) and what the worker received ( the wage net of all these deductions ) . |
| 4 | Private steel companies sought injunctions against the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation who were calling on workers in the private sector of the steel industry to come out on strike to support workers in the public sector who were striking over pay . |
| 5 | " We are facing an organized attempt to remove by force and violence the country 's elected leaders , " he said , and he called on workers to " support the action of eliminating this fascist rebellion " . |
| 6 | The full incidence of the tax falls on workers whose after-tax wage is reduced by the full amount of the tax . |
| 7 | The Tories had broadly accepted ‘ Attlee 's consensus ’ , although Churchill was already critical of ‘ socialist bureaucracy ’ and ‘ loss-making nationalised industries ’ and his party promised a further relaxation of wartime controls on workers , consumers and private capital ; the Labour leadership had basically achieved what they had set out to achieve in the initial round of nationalisation and formation of the National Health Service and had no new radical project to present to their working class supporters , while the broader ‘ labour movement ’ in the country was not unified around any radical demands for further government action . |