Sentence examples for down of workers from inspiring English sources

Smith, a former shadow work and pensions secretary, argued this would deliver the "biggest boost to living standards in a generation" and address the "perfect Tory storm" of falling wages, the watering down of workers' rights and cuts to social security.

The prime minister has promised there will be no watering down of workers' rights or environmental standards, but opposition MPs and rebel Tories fighting for a soft Brexit are likely to try to amend the bill to provide extra safeguards during its passage through parliament.

"A watering-down of workers' rights would impact women the most". Ms Harman told the Guardian that the team the UK was sending into battle was "out of touch with modern Britain" and looked like "the Kremlin from the 1950s".

The employers will contribute up to $3,000 in grants or forgivable loans towards the down payments of workers who are either buying homes for the first time or moving to Nassau or Suffolk Counties to begin a new job.

For negative values of wage growth, the lower tail for the switch down group of workers is much fatter than for the other two groups, while the lower tail looks similar for the switch to same size and switch up groups.

By the fall of 1931, the self reliance campaign was so successful that the massive British textile industry was in crisis -- factories were closing down, millions of workers were losing their jobs, and all efforts by imperial troops to enforce the ban had failed.

We see him bring honor and empathy to a beaten down pair of worker's boots, a heavenly glory to a dancing wheatfield, a driven yet calm Zen gaze in his self-portrait.

Many plants have closed down, and thousands of workers have lost their jobs.

After the Williamsburg bridge was shut down last month, hundreds of workers from the Dept. of Transportation worked around the clock one weekend to launch this ferry service.

The accident comes just a little more than three weeks after a building housing five garment factories in Bangladesh crashed down on thousands of workers, killing 1,127 people.

Statistics also show the US in 2007 had 15.7m union members, or 12.1% of employees down, from 20.1% of workers in 1983, the first year for which comparable union data are available.