Sentence examples for industrial conflicts from inspiring English sources

Employment in the mills plummeted and industrial conflicts escalated.

Now, though, the focus is on France's industrial conflicts, more than three months old now, which risk affecting the football as well as the country more generally.

This intense conflict between white unions and employers ended with the passage of the Industrial Conciliation Act in 1924, which set up new state structures for regulating industrial conflicts.

There are people in Britain's old mining villages or around Wapping in east London who are still not on speaking terms because they were on opposite sides of the bitter industrial conflicts of the 1980s.

This past year, with all its exits, arguments and industrial conflicts, too much control has fallen inevitably on the shoulders of the chief executive, Cressida Pollock, firefighting on all fronts, including those where she lacks expertise.

The following year, he capitalized on his success in repressing a dockmen's strike by immediately calling an emergency election in which he increased his parliamentary majority, but his subsequent bill (1951) to increase police powers in industrial conflicts (at a loss, many felt, of important individual rights) was enacted only in an amended form after a public outcry.

The rapid development of the industry often tears small groups apart, atomizes individual workers, and eventually ignites industrial conflict.

Whether this will usher in a long period of industrial conflict will become clearer in the coming weeks.

A. It was the papacy's – long overdue – response to a changed world of industrial conflict and class warfare.

Established as an alternative to industrial conflict, compulsory arbitration always faced in practice the problem of how to deal with strikes.

Despite the shrinking membership, industrial conflict took time to abate, as employers' efforts to force down wages were met with determined resistance.