Sentence examples for labor clashes from inspiring English sources

In 1934, police officers in San Francisco opened fire on striking longshoreman in one of the country's most significant and violent labor clashes.

With all the reports of financial struggles and labor clashes that have dogged the Philadelphia Orchestra this season, you can lose sight of the fact that on any given night this storied institution will probably prove anew that it remains one of the country's premier ensembles.

Mr. Kheel, a lawyer who specialized in seeking consensus in union-management wars, was most often spotlighted as a mediator and union adviser in the 1960's and 70's, when he helped settle transit and newspaper strikes in New York as well as labor clashes in the railroad, airline and waterfront industries nationally.

When the labor clashes started, she was locked out of work and scrambled to survive by stringing together part-time jobs.

The labor clash comes at a time of management upheaval at the top ranks of the Mercedes division.

The human resources manager who died Wednesday night during a violent labor clash at a car factory near New Delhi didn't die an easy death.

Although Kemp tried to appeal to the conservatives, his libertarian philosophies of tolerance and individual rights and his commitment to supporting minorities, women, blue-collar workers and organized labor clashed with conservative voters' social and religious values.

Though it was hardly the first labor clash Drummond has had to deal with, the strike that started last summer made waves in global energy markets because it lasted for months and forced a partial suspension of Drummond's export contracts.

Since the "Wisconsin uprising" began, the Tea Party movement and organized labor have clashed in three separate state-wide elections.

The result is a clash between the owners of capital and the providers of labor -- a clash that has resulted in heightened trade frictions and growing protectionist risks.

In March 2012, Mr. Yudhoyono proposed raising fuel prices, but even members of his own governing coalition revolted at the last minute, quashing his plan at a raucous House session as student and labor groups outside clashed with police officers on live national television.