Sentence examples for series of workers from inspiring English sources

To anyone not versed in the vocabulary of Mr Chávez's "Bolivarian revolution", that means a series of workers' co-operatives and social programmes, all bankrolled by Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the state oil monopoly.Three spanking new buildings have gone up round a central meeting area.

A series of worker strikes hit foreign-owned manufacturers in southern China, causing wages to rise sharply.

In recent years, Foxconn facilities in China have experienced a series of worker suicides, and labor rights groups have documented varied abuses.

It is fitting — almost chill-inducing — that the ruling comes on March 25 , 2011 on the hundredth anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (which I wrote about last week), an event that touched off a long series of worker-safety improvements and reforms, leading up to, in 1970, the establishment of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

It's the latest in a series of worker actions this year.

Most notably, conditions at its Longhua district factory in Shenzhen were blamed for a series of worker suicides in 2010.

In this configuration, a master Nagios server dispatches the service checks from its own schedule to a series of worker nodes.

Though this may point to slackening demand for the iPhone 5, it could also mean that Foxconn is preparing to adjust its production line in order to install automated robots as a way to get around increasing wages and concerns that poor working conditions played a role in a series of worker suicides.

The walkouts are the latest in a series of worker demonstrations in protest of what associates describe as the retailer's low wages, unpredictable hours and unjust retaliation against workers.

The deal was agreed almost two years after a series of worker suicides at Foxconn plants focused attention on conditions at Chinese factories and sparked criticism Apple's products were built on the backs of mistreated Chinese workers.

The incident is just one in a long series of worker disputes that took place in South Africa last year, which included the shooting of 30 striking miners at the Lonmin platinum mine by police.