Sentence examples for of workers demands from inspiring English sources

The legislation that aims to protect Britain's workers from explicit exploitation developed over the course of the 19th and 20th century, and was born from a curious mixture of workers' demands, the campaigning of paternalists and government action.

Although the Central Bank this week raised one of its interest rates by a full six percentage points, rates remain below inflation, giving Argentines little reason to hold pesos.On the fiscal front the government needs to reduce subsidies and remain unyielding in the face of workers' demands for pay rises.

From 1936 to 1939 a leftist government ruled under the heading Popular Front, which realized a lot of workers' demands, and where communists had some influence (Lazar 2005).

In fact, the 42-year-old US executive hasn't been able to leave his medical supply plant in Beijing for five days because he has been held hostage by dozens of workers demanding redundancy packages like those given to 30 co-workers in a shuttered section of the plant.

For decades the US labor movement had already been filling the streets with hundreds of thousands of workers demanding an eight-hour workday.

"Seattle and the new wave of workers demanding a $15 wage has changed the dynamic, and created national momentum for much more meaningful minimum wages," Sonn told VICE News.

The standoff at Grasberg followed a recent deadly clash between protesters and police the culmination of an earlier strike that turned out thousands of workers demanding major wage increases.

Forget the salad wraps or apple slices -- McDonald's is now serving up an even more creative alternative, in an attempt to satisfy thousands of workers demanding fair wages and respect at the workplace.

What actually caused the recession of the late 1970s, Krugman writes, was an unfortunate vicious cycle of workers demanding more money because they expected prices to rise, companies raising prices to pay for their increased costs as well as big oil price shocks.

But the level of labor unrest in China this year has not yet matched 2010, when a surge in inflation sparked a wave of worker demands for higher pay, Mr. Crothall said.

Regardless of country, many of the workers' demands are similar, according to Massimo Fratini, the global fast food coordinator for the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers Associationn.