Sentence examples for standing up for workers from inspiring English sources

Swan has written, "Politicians have a choice: between... standing up for workers and kneeling down at the feet of the Gina Rineharts and the Clive Palmers".

Labour must fight this and make the case loud and clear for the huge role unions play in standing up for workers and resolving industrial disputes".

They say they are standing up for workers against the port companies, which have recently had high-profile clashes with union workers.

Even so, a government report and a Congressional hearing this week painted a disturbing picture of a Labor Department that simply is not standing up for workers.

Moreover, unions note that they have improved millions of lives and are standing up for workers, who are mostly middle class, at a time when many families are losing ground financially.

This has arisen, in part, said Mr Vavi, because Cosatu has become preoccupied with politics and its relations with the ANC, rather than with standing up for workers' rights.

But I wish he would deal more with the Democratic things that matter to me, like standing up for the workers in Wisconsin.

They will be standing up for fellow workers like 67-year-old Rosa Valenzuela, who was fired just a month short of her 20th anniversary at Walmart.

When the class of 2014 has met injustice, we have taken meaningful action: combatting sexual assault on campus, changing our food system and campus landscape, standing up for our workers, marching for need blind, sleeping on Wall Street, demanding divestment, supporting the rights of trans students, and rallying behind African American Studies.

Standing up for what we believe.

Standing up for what you believe.