Sentence examples for votes of workers from inspiring English sources

But the core concept of the party appealing more widely to the votes of "workers" is not as ludicrous as it first sounds.

Sure, abandoning workers' rights won't lose the votes of workers in and of itself, but standing up for workers' rights has been the saving grace of presidents who have blundered and gone astray from their base.

Yet without the votes of workers and small farmers in Pennsylvania and Ohio, as well as a strong Democratic turnout in New York City, Jackson would have lost the Electoral College in a landslide.

He would have garnered more, but two other candidates--Democrat Woodrow Wilson and Progressive Party candidate (and former president) Theodore Roosevelt--stole some of the Socialists' thunder, diverting the votes of workers, women, and consumers with promises of such progressive reforms as women's suffrage, child labor laws, and workers' right to organize unions.

The U.A.W.'s president, Bob King, said that overall economic terms apply to all Chrysler workers, and the skilled-trades vote could not outweigh the votes of production workers.

If a government cuts the salaries of 500,000 public employees, for example, it probably loses the votes of those workers without necessarily getting much credit from the rest of the electorate.

In its 13-page appeal, the UAW said that "threats" made by Tennessee lawmakers were "clearly designed to influence the votes" of Volkswagen workers, who eventually voted 712-to-626 against UAW representation last week.

But they also, paradoxically, get the votes of many workers who are clinging so desperately to their jobs that they're afraid of change and too cowed to make a ruckus.

Sabena of Belgium, which was in deep financial trouble before the terror attacks, said that because of union objections it would go through with only half its 1,400 announced layoffs immediately, but that it planned to put its revamping plan to a vote of its workers unless union officials assented to the rest of the layoffs within 24 hours.

Sanders himself has promised to support the nominee, but appears increasingly alarmed at polling suggesting that Clinton may struggle against Trump for the votes of blue collar workers in states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Under the proposal, if the union doesn't win votes from a majority of workers in the bargaining unit, regardless of how many workers vote in the election, it would lose its status as the workers' designated representative, a process known as decertification.