Sentence examples for backing of workers from inspiring English sources

Protesters insist they had the backing of workers.

Perhaps more glaringly, two of France's most militant unions — the Confédération Générale du Travail and Force Ouvrière — have refused to sign on, weakening the claim that it was made with the backing of workers.

This will have the backing of workers, according to Carlos Ortega, who easily defeated Mr Chavez's candidate in an election this month for the presidency of the main labour confederation.Mr Chavez dismissed the strike threat, attributing it to "the elites of the old, corrupt political class".

Rather than balancing the budget on the backs of workers, the poor and unemployed, a just solution includes tax increases for the wealthiest Americans.

"Earnings are growing faster than top-line growth," Mr. Berner said, "and that is good for future profits and for the hiring back of workers".

The solar market is largely growing on the backs of workers who hoist solar panels up to roofs to assemble and wire them together.

Corporate titans known as robber barons amassed fortunes on the backs of workers who toiled for meagre pay in difficult conditions.

"More and more what we're doing is putting the responsibility for accumulating sufficient assets for retirement on the backs of workers, but not educating workers as to what their responsibility is," Mr. Schieber said.

"If we look back at the extraordinary events last week, the treasurer of this country and the industry minister trying to shift the blame for the demise of the auto industry on to the back of workers … it's not surprising that they would make this move," Bastian said.

In Catalonia, often a rather claustrophobic society, there is no equivalent to the "Better Together" campaign, and little discussion of whether a rich region whose prosperity has historically rested, in part, on the back of workers coming in from the rest of Spain, has some sort of duty to repay that debt.

Too competitive, the union says, and accomplished on the backs of workers.