Sentence examples for growing labor movement from inspiring English sources

Returning home, he declared for governor and won an upset victory with the aid of South Carolina's growing labor movement.

When I visited in 2002 to help the growing labor movement in northern China, I was arrested and sentenced to time in prison for "spying".

The cuts, which affected contractors around the globe, reinvigorated the debate over Google's extensive use of TVCs, amid a growing labor movement within the company.

African Americans took part in the growing labor movement as a way to stanch political losses and build capital that supported upward mobility.

Berg is part of a growing labor movement by Hollywood writers — the people primarily responsible for on-screen drama, jokes, stories and suspense — pushing back against a fundamental change in the entertainment business.

But a growing labor movement within the company is putting pressure on Google over sensitive issues such as the Chinese censorship project, sexual harassment and performing work for the defense department.

Within China, improvements are being driven by external pressure from global retailers that have their products made in Chinese factories, and by a growing labor rights movement, led by workers who are demanding more freedom and better treatment in the workplace.

They contributed to the growing cultural labor movement that Mr. Freedman discusses by going to offices and factories to give dance classes to the workers, and by choosing themes for their dances like labor strikes, solidarity between black and white workers, and the Spanish Civil War.

Stern knows that a settlement with UNITE HERE is not close, and appears to be simply buying time to reverse growing media, labor movement, and internal criticism of his union's actions.

"We have had great conversations about the need to grow the labor movement and not fight amongst ourselves," Ms. Weingarten said.

Indeed, it was fear of a rapidly growing public-sector labor movement in the 1970s and 1980s that motivated some conservative leaders to invest in developing new organizations that could match the power and influence that public unions – especially those representing public school teachers – were perceived as having in state politics.