Sentence examples for mainstream union from inspiring English sources

There has been growing frustration with the governing African National Congress and its mainstream union allies for moving too slowly to deliver wage increases and public services.

They demonstrated an ability to work together in a way that no band of mainstream union leaders had done in recent years.

The move signals an increase in co-operation between the mainstream union movement and the wider – and often more radical – anti-cuts groups, and comes before a day of co-ordinated industrial action over public sector pensions on 30 June.

Black and red flags of CGT (the anarchist trade union), red balloons of UGT (a Spanish mainstream union), yellow-red-purple flags of the Second Republic.

Mainstream unions were quick to condemn the vandalism.

The crisis has prompted mainstream unions to take a tougher line.

But the biggest threats come from fringe groups, such as ultra-leftists and disaffected youths, not from the mainstream unions or parties.

Analysts say workers across the industry are disaffected with the NUM and other mainstream unions, regarding them as too close to the employers.

On a hill outside Johannesburg thousands of labour activists are gathering for the national conference of the trade union federation Cosatu - against a backdrop of continuing unrest in the mining industry, and pointed questions about role and relevance of mainstream unions, and their cosy relationship with government.

It was particularly attractive to miners from the Ruhr area opposed to the mainstream unions' reformist policies.

Nine people, including two police officers and three officials of the mainstream National Union of Mineworkers, died in incidents in the first week of the strike.