Sentence examples for pit workers from inspiring English sources

Musiolek describes this threat of flight as "20% true and 80% there to pit workers against each other.

Thatcher's detractors opted for loud but peaceful dissent In 1984, the pit workers at Hatfield saw the Prime Minister as their mortal enemy.

When Stevie Wonder got angry During the miners' strike, Carthy found himself playing the bloodthirsty 19th-century Northumbrian folk song Blackleg Miner to striking pit workers.

The new rules pit workers against business over safety issues as nothing has since Congress created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 1970.

In odourless rooms overlooking each pit, workers use joysticks to manipulate gigantic German-made steel claws a bit like the ones in fairground games used to retrieve sweets and toys.

Organizations and lawmakers opposed to raising the federal and the state minimum wage have used this dynamic to pit workers against workers – allowing CEOs and those running companies to sit on the sidelines.

The guys at the BF Goodrich tent and really, every other driver and pit worker at the Baja 1000 were much more similar to Gianni and Medrano than Romy and Jen.

Horne, a 35-year-old pit worker from South Yorkshire, was a regular on the picket line and had become used to clambering over fences and crossing streams to avoid the police road blocks set up to hamper the striking miners.

"If you've been in the community so long, then surely you owe it something back?" The speaker who received by far the biggest response was Councillor Tom Adams, a former pit worker who is one of the 189 Tesco staff who could lose their jobs.

Some managers felt that his managerial grading system pitted workers against one another, lowering morale.

The second assumption is that maternity provision pits workers against one another, and particularly pits women against one another.