Sentence examples for history workers from inspiring English sources

Throughout American history, workers had to fight to get better pay and shorter hours -- evenings and weekends weren't just handed over by lawmakers and benevolent managers.

For the first time in Walmart's 50-year history, workers at multiple stores have gone on strike, even though their jobs are not protected by a labor union.

In Los Angeles, where earlier this month workers staged the first-ever "sit down" strike in the company's history, workers went on a 24-hour hunger strike to protest the company "starving" them, organizers said.

If you look back in history, workers have always had to demand respect, whether it was the Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886 or more recently, the UPS worker strike of 1997.

More deeply rooted in our history, American workers have been super-sensitive to "elitism".

The most severe slump in Britain's postwar history meant workers taking paycuts in order to keep their jobs.

A. No. Contingency planning costs money; the government loses fees and charges that go uncollected; and, to judge by history, furloughed workers will eventually receive their back pay.

A current exhibition plays directly on that history: "The Workers," which runs to April 15, features 40 or so works that hew to the theme of American labor.

Industrial growth began to produce an urban working class, which seemed fated to repeat the history of workers in the early stages of industrial capitalism in Western countries.

"This is a landmark event in the history of workers' rights and the codes of conduct that we expect our licensees to follow," Mr. Powers said.

He doesn't belong to any unions or expect to join one, but "It hasn't been that long in our history that workers have had a voice," he said.