Sentence examples for union struggles from inspiring English sources

"The jobs were badly paid, but there were union struggles, strikes that lasted for months, that gave hope.

It is about trade union struggles and LGBT politics, and yet looks set to be a resounding mainstream success rather than a niche arthouse classic.

As head of communications, Graeff will help Draghi communicate his vision to the euro region's citizens and to the global financial market as the 17-nation currency union struggles to stay together.

As such, the idea of abandoning people who have stood with us – and us with them – in trade union struggles, political campaigns, progressive movements and so on for generations can be considered progress is anathema to me.

At Paramount Pictures' lot on Melrose Avenue, an all-day writers' march on Tuesday sought to associate the guild's fight with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's union struggles.

Fights for 10-hour workdays and a six-day work week were a key part of early union struggles.

First Union struggled with its 1997 acquisitions of both Core-States Financial and the Money Store.

Goodenow resigned, and the next three executive directors resigned or were fired over the next four years, as the fractious union struggled.

That work stoppage lasted 27 days and ended when the government allowed Volkswagen to terminate its labor contract because an internal union struggle had caused the strike.

Whether or not the president's indifference to Wisconsin's union struggle will have an impact this November remains to be seen, but for many of those still stinging from last night's defeat, his silence will be duly remembered.

There is no date on the calendar for the other union struggle, but it is coming too – a contest over the union that binds the four nations of these islands.