Sentence examples for mineworker from inspiring English sources

First, he becomes a jailbird, then a preacher, then a humbled mineworker, and, finally, a drug kingpin.

"You don't want guys turning up late for training, drinking half the night before a game, cavorting in Newcastle casinos, do you?" Barry Waller, 56, an unemployed mineworker, said as he gripped a plastic tankard of beer at the Colliery Tavern, across the road from the stadium, before the Manchester United game.

A mineworker in Mr. Jia's native Shanxi Province goes on a shooting rampage against the mine owner, village chief and other local bosses.

While his most important partner, James Motlatsi, a tough and shrewd former mineworker from Lesotho, managed the fractious rank and file, Ramaphosa worked the owners.

Then, one of her customers takes a serious shine to her: Michel (Joseph Bour) is a beefy retired mineworker who is absolutely besotted.

She plays a female mineworker in the iron fields of Minnesota, who takes her corporate bosses to court over constant, brutal victimisation.

The dispute's bitter outcome left the National Union of Mineworkers and the the wider trade union movement weakened and divided.

The vast majority of these miners were family men who had never been in trouble before or since but who faced the prospect of going to jail for something they hadn't done," said Lavery, who is a former president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).

Mr Heath tried to devise a pay policy which would be generally acceptable, but was particularly geared towards the National Union of Mineworkers, then a massive power within the union movement.

The women's page in the Guardian on 28 May 1984 features an interview with members of the Barnsley WAPC, including both Anne Scargill (then wife of Arthur Scargill, president of the National Union of Mineworkers) and Betty Heathfield, wife of NUM general secretary Peter Heathfield and leading figure in the women's support groups.

The drama will follow the sisters as their families and the local community are torn apart by the year-long conflict between the Thatcher government and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), which began in March 1984.