Sentence examples for machinists from inspiring English sources

It is now 41 years since the machinists of Dagenham took tea (not sherry or whisky) with the employment secretary.

I wanted to write a story about the sewing machinists' reaction – where had they got with their own claim, not just for equal pay (on the bottom unskilled grade) but also for regrading as semi-skilled?

We have the opportunity, on the screen, to revisit those wonderful sewing machinists: to listen to their stories that are never only about the strike and always about life.

As he was Listening to Radio 4's Reunion series, film producer Stephen Woolley became enthralled by a group of working-class women involved in a historic event he'd never heard about: the Ford sewing machinists who went on strike in 1968.

It was another 16 years before the machinists of Dagenham could get the status of their jobs upgraded to semiskilled.

The Ford sewing machinists changed my life.

Businessmen in pinstripes, young researchers in white coats, machinists in high-visibility jackets and bearded academics stride along the polished corridors.

But in America even now very few women want to become carpenters, electricians or machinists, and men show no interest in becoming dental assistants or hairdressers.During the 1970s and 1980s the labour markets for men and women became less segregated, but that trend came to a halt in the mid-1990s.

A two-month strike by machinists at Boeing added to the delays.

He tore off his suit jacket and put on a fake-satin jacket with a big machinists-and-aerospace-workers-union logo on the back.

They too have been promised some jam tomorrow, with wages restored in 2008.But both these deals are now jeopardised by the rejection, by the mechanics and ground staff represented by the International Association of Machinists, of a tentative deal, involving a 7% cut, that had been agreed with management on November 25th.