Sentence examples for striking factory from inspiring English sources

In July , 2008 fourteen young activists who belonged to a Facebook group expressing solidarity with striking factory workers were jailed for two weeks.

The Hershey Foods Corporation and negotiators for 2,700 striking factory workers reached a tentative agreement tonight that could end a 42-day strike, a company official said.

Tout Va Bien, about striking factory workers holding their bosses hostage, has a composite set influenced by Lewis's The Ladies Man.

Mr. Engel went on to work at PM, the newspaper, where he photographed the panoply of the city, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Babe Ruth, murders, striking factory workers, a nudist camp.

In all, about 30 of these were made and sent out to striking factories and big cities like Marseille and Bordeaux, so the whole country could see what was going on in Paris.

When I was there on vacation recently, striking garment factory workers had just been shot at by police, leading to five deaths and many more injuries.

First, when the New Deal programs were passed in the mid 1930s, millions of workers were joining unions, striking, and occupying factories to fight for a better life.

BEIJING — On a hot morning in late May, while some 2,000 workers at a Honda parts factory were striking in China's south, 100 irate employees at a hotel in the heart of the capital staged their own protest.

"Everyone aspires to become a permanent employee," Rajbir, a 23-year-old contract worker who only uses one name, said while he camped with other striking workers outside the factory gates.

When Macron announced that he was going to visit striking workers at a factory in eastern France who were fighting against the closure of their workplace and its transfer to low-wage Poland, Marine Le Pen rushed to get there before him, promising the workers they'd keep their jobs in France, and taking selfies with them, before leaving to the sound of applause.

Strikes in Łódź continued until mid-1906, when the large Russian military presence and mass layoffs of striking workers from the factories finally pacified the city.