Sentence examples for federation of workers from inspiring English sources

Histadruth, which is closely associated with the Agency, is by no means simply a federation of workers' unions.

An article on Thursday about the opposition of American retailers to a safety plan for Bangladesh factories misstated the position of Philip J. Jennings at Uni Global Union, a federation of workers that has helped develop the plan.

Mondragon Corporation, a federation of worker cooperatives with headquarters in Spain's Basque region, is highly regarded for creating both economic and social value.

The largest industrial federation of worker cooperatives in the world, Mondragon Corporation, is one of Spain's top 10 multinationals, with about $13 billion in revenue from 105 cooperatives, and 75,000 employees stretching across Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States.

Adding fuel to the fire is the news, earlier this month, that Spanish appliance company Fagor – part of the world's largest federation of worker co-ops, Mondragon – is headed for collapse.

This grassroots economic development approach originated in the Basque region of Spain, where the Mondragon Corporation, a federation of worker co-operatives that now employs more than 74,000 people in finance, retail and other sectors, was set up in 1956, based around the ideals of social responsibility and participation.

Coinciding with the filing of OSHA complaints, the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, a federation of worker safety groups, commissioned a poll of fast-food workers by Hart Research Associates, a firm that often polls for labor and progressive groups.

Over the last week, H&M was in intense negotiations on the plan with officials from IndustriALL Global Union, a federation of 50 million workers from 140 countries and from UNI Global Union, a federation of 20 million service sector workers.

"I'm quite confident that we will get some of the big retail players to sign on to this," said Jyrki Raina, general secretary of the IndustriAll Global Union, a federation of 50 million workers from 140 countries.

Meanwhile, Virginia Woolf would be delighted to learn that the ODNB records the life of her namesake Jessie Stephen, "suffragette and labour activist": the mutinous Glasgow maid who founded the Scottish Federation of Domestic Workers and sabotaged pillar boxes while wearing her apron and cap.

Juliette Paule Zingan, from a federation of Senegalese fish workers, had met only sardine fishermen.