Sentence examples for labour actions from inspiring English sources

When the sheriffs in Vermilion and Marion counties informed Illinois Governor John Peter Altgeld that they feared that local labour actions would spiral out of control, Altgeld sent six companies of militia to Danville at the beginning of July and another three to Decatur, with orders to quell any rioting and clear the way for the trains.

Even in a year that's seen labour actions at some of Canada's largest universities and the unprecedented unionization of several new media organizations, what's happening in Windsor is unusual.

Even in a year that's seen labour actions at some of Canada's largest universities and the unprecedented unionization of several new media organizations, what's happening in Windsor, Canada is unusual.

SITTING around a restaurant table, six workers discuss the progress of their labour action.

But leaders warned that wider labour action would clearly worsen in the months ahead, destabilising whoever is elected to succeed Morsi as president this spring.

Hang Tung Chow of Labour Action China, a nongovernmental organization based in Hong Kong, posted copies of several images and video clips of the protest originally uploaded to Chinese social media accounts on her Twitter feed.

Crossrail, increasing rail capacity and more local control of bus services, the list of Labour action on sustainable transport goes on: real programmes right now making a real difference to carbon emission reductions and improving people's lives.

These were the singer's first comments on a labour action that began on 26 May; Sting said he had been provoked by Kazakhstan's "hunger strikes, imprisoned workers and tens of thousands on strike".

A 2012 survey by Platform for Labour Action (PLA), a Kampala-based NGO, found that most children in homes growing tobacco missed half of their schooling during planting and harvesting seasons.

The supreme irony of the outgoing first minister, Labour's Jack McConnell, is that he was once a member of a ginger group in the 80's called Scottish Labour Action, which separated itself from the mainstream Labour party of the time by being bullish about Scottish self-government.

To prevent further labour action and disruption for all students across university campuses in Canada, university administrators will have to address these serious structural deficiencies that have decayed the quality of education and research at public universities in Canada and across North America.