Sentence examples for labor resistance from inspiring English sources

Mahalla el-Kobra, the center of the country's textile industry, became a stronghold of labor resistance, and remains so.

The major project is the creation of a set of multi-media documents that help preserve and present the local history of labor, resistance, and community organization.

PARIS — The board of Alitalia, the money-losing Italian airline, accepted a 747 million-euro takeover offer from Air France-KLM on Sunday, seizing a financial lifeline at the 11th hour after months of political indecision and labor resistance.

Although they have not been incorporated into the new legal framework that helps define and legitimize China's decentralized legal authoritarian regime, they have emerged as a central component of China's economic success and an important source of labor resistance.

DEAL FOR ALITALIA The board of Alitalia, the money-losing Italian airline, accepted a takeover offer of 747 million euros ($1.15 billion) from Air France-KLM, seizing a financial lifeline at the 11th hour after months of political indecision and labor resistance.

In a statement Thursday, striking workers in Mahalla el-Kobra, the center of the country's textile industry and a stronghold of labor resistance in the Nile Delta, said that they would no longer take part in a government-controlled labor union but that they would rather join the new Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions, which it said was set up on Jan . 30

In 1995, the last conservative prime minister, Alain Juppé, was brought down in part as result of widespread labor union resistance to pension reform.

With President Clinton eager to make trade liberalization part of his legacy, labor's resistance to the trade measures has irritated the Clinton administration.

"What is being disputed on a global level is not the ability of the government but the ability of the country to do what is necessary," he said, in an apparent reference to strong labor union resistance to reforms and persistent tax evasion.

It's incredibly exciting," says Dr Jamie Woodcock of the Oxford Internet Institute, whose research focuses on digital labor and resistance.

The plight of indentured labor, peasant resistance against colonial exploitation, the reformist initiatives of the Brahmo Samaj, and the proselytizing efforts of the Christian missionaries are dominant themes running through the narrative.