Sentence examples for massive workers from inspiring English sources

It would be simplistic to frame France's current disputes as a massive workers' uprising against austerity.

Looking back now we see the progression, from small groups collecting medicines for the intifada, to the civil movement, Kifaya, hitting the streets, to the massive workers' strikes in Mahalla, to the point where every sector in civil society – judges, lawyers, farmers, teachers, pensioners, journalists, tax collectors – was fighting with the government.

Now is the time for another massive workers' movement to demand a modern New Deal, with expanded Social Security, an increased minimum wage, and a more even field on which to bargain.

The Thursday demonstration is a follow up the massive worker strike a month earlier when hundreds of Chicago-area fast-food and retail workers walked off the job in protest for a living wage.

In this show at Zwirner, ten grandly scaled canvases present taciturn, massive figures — workers, students, paramilitarists, and the odd hirsute barbarian or woman wielding a hookah — amid broken architecture and unhappy nature, fraught with hints of recent or impending violence.

"The proposal unveiled today includes a massive guest worker program that would allow employers to import hundreds of thousands" of temporary workers every year to perform permanent jobs throughout the economy, John J. Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, said in a statement.

Massive rural-worker agitation swept the whole of the Po valley and threatened the harvest during the summer of 1920.

John J. Sweeney, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., denounced the bill from a different angle, saying it would create "a massive guest worker program".

We have a situation in which resources are sitting idle looking for uses — massive unemployment of workers, especially construction workers, capital so bereft of good investment opportunities that it's available to the federal government at negative real interest rates.

This new international wage competition will be a massive shock to workers who are currently ring-fenced ― white collar and professional workers at the high end and manual service workers at the low end.

The increasingly massive scale of workers in this new economy has led to a bright spotlight being cast on how these companies treat workers.