Sentence examples for worker militancy from inspiring English sources

Worker militancy is spasmodic.

During the 1960s it had come to be widely believed in Europe that worker militancy was a matter of the past and that strikes in particular were withering away.

In South Africa these years saw a wave of African worker militancy, partly inspired by the Communist Party, and a reorganization of the African National Congress by a new, younger urban constituency.

A resurgent British labor-union movement, egged on by a new generation of radical leaders, is threatening a summer of strikes in what would be the biggest show of worker militancy in Britain in two decades.

If the Left stands for anything, it's worker emancipation and labor militancy.

The growing militancy of exploited workers, from Uber drivers to Walmart "associates" to home care workers and many more, is building a new movement of workers to challenge the 21st-century economy, in the same way that workers built the labor movement 100 years ago.

That would be galling for a party that was swept into power in 1994 by militant trade unions and activists in sprawling industrial townships.The second development now rattling the ANC is a rise in militancy among unionised workers and a fragmentation of support for the ANC-aligned Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the country's biggest labour federation.

This event, along with the eight-hour militancy of McCormick workers, had gained the strikers some respect and notoriety around the city.

By the mid-1930s, though, worker protests increased in number and militancy.

President François Hollande's timid attempts to free them up a bit is provoking the current trades union militancy in which unemployed workers and their parents – by 60%, so polls suggest – are siding with the strikers, as they usually do.

That campaign has helped foster a certain militancy among fast-food workers, not to mention more public sympathy for their plight, he said.