Sentence examples for wage riots from inspiring English sources

But because agricultural wages were extremely low, wage riots broke out in the nineteen-twenties, and many young people migrated to London.

More recently, a radical right-wing group called Right Sector (Pravy Sektor) – more extreme than the nationalist Freedom Party – has become associated with the running battles waged against riot police.

Reporting in VICE has already shown that earlier minimum wage protests and riots at factories under the umbrella of the Nassa group, a large Bangladeshi supplier to companies like Walmart, were probably instigated and were certainly condoned by the local National Security and Intelligence service.

Assassinations, war, riots.

The all-out war that David Cameron promised to wage on gangs after the August riots is threatening to turn into one between government departments.

The Baltimore Orioles will reimburse hourly employees at Camden Yards who lost wages during the week of April 27 after riots broke out in Baltimore following the funeral of Freddie Gray.

Eight of the new ministers face legal cases, including attempted murder, rioting and waging war against the state.

Two Chinese mining managers in Zambia are scheduled to go on trial for attempted murder next month, accused of shooting and wounding thirteen miners during a 2008 riot over wages at a Chinese-owned coal mine.

In China, any unions not controlled by the state are outlawed, which is why so many protests about unpaid wages and the like take the form of riots; there's no legal way to enforce workers' rights.

In the wake of the recent riots in England, Prime Minister David Cameron promised to wage an "all out war" against gangs.

We listen on your phone.' " A Secret Truce Workers won a partial victory after the 2010 riots, as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina raised the monthly minimum wage to about $37.