Sentence examples for labor convention from inspiring English sources

Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa, who endorsed Mr. Dean's campaign almost 10 years ago, encouraged him to speak at the labor convention, according to the aide.

Mr. Blair drew the battle lines with the militants in a combative speech to a Labor convention in Cardiff on Feb. 2. He told delegates the party's progressive agenda was under attack from "wreckers" whom he likened to the Trotskyite radicals known as the Militant Tendency that Labor had to expel from its ranks to become credible and electable.

In a 1903 speech to a labor convention, Hanna stated that the efforts of labor to organize into unions should be considered no more shocking than those of businesses organizing into trade groups.

Coolidge said he originally hoped to reinstate the officers, stating in a telegram to a labor convention, "I earnestly hope that circumstances may arise which will cause the police officers to be reinstated".

Well, Obama canceled his Monday trip to Los Angeles, where he was to appear at a labor convention and a big Democratic fundraiser, in favor of what looks like a desperate bid to line up votes in Congress for the attack on Syria.

Based upon the rhetoric at the quadrennial labor convention held in Los Angeles this week, it appears that the labor movement will be trying new things and working diligently to break out of the daze we described in our most recent blog.

Mr. Somavia argued that labor conventions and treaties have an important role.

It is rare for foreign officials to address labor conventions, much less raise their fist in solidarity with the union members.

Those Ethiopians who do arrive and find work in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries often have their passports taken away by their employers, which is a violation of international labor conventions, and are subjected to debt slavery, beatings, and other forms of abuse.

Meanwhile, our domestic debate has been dominated by topics such as sugar and whether Cafta will codify international labor conventions that the U.S. has not even ratified itself.

They presented their findings evidence of thousands of Brazilian workers whose abuse and bondage the state had systematically tolerated to the International Labour Organization, and in 1995 the ILO declared Brazil in contempt of its forced labor conventions, which Brazil had ratified.