Sentence examples for factory council from inspiring English sources

Only in Turin, where the factory council movement undermined both union and employer power, did revolutionary practice go beyond the empty rhetoric of the maximalists.

One worker said that the newly chosen factory council was not holding any negotiations because it could be physically dangerous for all of the representatives to gather in one place with management and the authorities.

Those deemed most able are forced to work the hardest, and you can't get anything as simple as new underwear without convincing the factory council that your old ones need to be replaced.

Gramsci encouraged the development of factory councils (democratic bodies elected directly by industrial workers), which undercut the control of trade unions.

The stoppages forced employers to grant large pay raises at least 15 percent and factory councils were set up in nearly all major plants.

"At La Scala there was someone who had contact with the local factory councils, which were not trade unions but directly run by workers.

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Some members of the factory's council of workers, chosen by the workers to represent them when the strike began on Wednesday, have gone into hiding, fearing retaliation, while others have returned to work in an effort to continue seeking a better deal.

Unions are increasingly accepting "hardship agreements" that allow troubled firms to freeze wages so long as they make it up to workers later if their fortunes improve.Employers are also more frequently ignoring the big unions and making deals with their own factory works councils.

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Mordashov claims the factory's "company council" voted to give him, and not the director, his supporter, the other 76%–effective control of the entire company.