Sentence examples for wave of workers from inspiring English sources

The Mexican government is struggling to accommodate a tidal wave of workers drawn to cities along the United States border by foreign-owned manufacturing plants and increased trade.

About 800 unionized nursing home employees rallied outside Gov. John G. Rowland's residence yesterday, as a third wave of workers walked off the job and another nursing home announced its intention to close.

Only a Libyan version of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission can establish a culture of the rule of law and avert haphazard revenge-taking and a wave of workers' strikes, like last week's at the National Oil Company.

BEIJING — The first wave of workers has arrived in the annual migration to China's restive western region of Xinjiang this year to pick cotton, according to a report on Friday by Xinhua, the state news agency.

With an ageing population sending more professionals into retirement in the coming years, businesses will have to hire, train and cope with a new wave of workers whose approach to problem solving contrasts sharply with students from previous generations.

As the Guardian reports as part of a series on a new wave of workers in insecure positions, more than half of all academics in the UK are on some kind of casual contract.

Industrial accidents have injured and killed Foxconn workers, and the company also experienced a wave of worker suicides.

Last year, one of Apple's biggest suppliers was hit by a wave of worker suicides at several of its mainland Chinese facilities.

But the level of labor unrest in China this year has not yet matched 2010, when a surge in inflation sparked a wave of worker demands for higher pay, Mr. Crothall said.

A wave of worker disputes in China in recent months, mostly at foreign-owned factories like Honda and Foxconn, has raised questions about whether other low-cost Asian manufacturing centers will also see higher wages as their workers become more assertive.

At its huge iPhone factory in Longhua, China, there has been a wave of worker suicides.