Sentence examples for labor discontent from inspiring English sources

Industrial labor discontent has simmered in the oil regions of western Kazakhstan for years.

Western experts say if Chinese leaders were to allow independent unions, that could help defuse labor discontent.

And, with their strikes and marches on Moscow, they enlivened the election campaigns when Boris N. Yeltsin fought the powerful tide of labor discontent over his economic reforms.

She was one of the youngest employees in the factory, where she witnessed the labor discontent that sometimes rocked South Korea as its economy galloped ahead but many workers toiled in sweatshop conditions.

Although we are hunkered down for a long season of N.F.L. labor discontent — equipment includes airport-style earmuffs and a device that can change a TV channel to a gardening show at the first mention of the word lockout — a little ray of common sense emanated from a federal judge on Tuesday.

He held one important position or another — his portfolios included finance, treasury, defense and industry — as Italy overcame wartime destruction and the threat of Stalinist totalitarianism, coped with staggering social problems and labor discontent, faced down terrorists, and struggled against organized crime.

Historians agree that in the decades following the revolution of 1910 1920 the Mexican state was fundamentally weak due to internal corruption, labor and peasant discontent, and lack of centralized power.

In 1886 another notable tragedy occurred, as 14,000 laborers organized in Bay View to demonstrate discontent with labor conditions.

Even in Britain, where Prime Minister Tony Blair seems to have ridden out the wave of discontent, his Labor government is being pushed to appease Europe's anti-immigrant outcry.

To fan the flames of blue-collar and white-collar discontent, the labor federation has set up a Web site (www.paywatch.org) that shows workers how many hundreds of times more the C.E.O.'s at their companies earn than they do.

The voters' minds had been made up by the combination of rising prices, hatred of the Government's labor-relations policies, and discontent with 3 1/2 years of a Tory Government that had got the country into Europe, where multitudes of citizens did not want to be, and still deeper into economic crisis.