Sentence examples for workers occupied from inspiring English sources

The workers occupied a rocky hill near Lonmin's mine and the shantytown where many miners live.

Li was 23 when a group of students and workers occupied Tiananmen Square.

Meanwhile, union workers occupied the power company's billing center, preventing any new bills from going out.

In December workers occupied a window factory in Chicago for five days to secure severance pay that they were owed.

That changed on Monday, when workers occupied Britain's only major wind-turbine factory in protest at its imminent closure.

In Thessaloniki, workers occupied the Viomichaniki Metallevtiki factory, which produced building materials before it was abandoned by its owners, in 2011.

He has also backed tougher collective-bargaining rules, and promised not to intervene if workers occupy workplaces.

On Dec. 16 security forces in the western city of Zhanaozen killed and wounded hundreds of unarmed demonstrators, mostly striking oil workers, occupying a public square.

"The covered-button guys, they're all gone," said Nanette Lepore, a fashion designer whose 120 workers occupy five floors of a building on 35th Street just off Seventh Avenue.

Africans in many countries complain that Chinese workers occupy jobs that locals are either qualified for or could be easily trained to do.

Women hold 59% of minimum wage jobs and female part time workers occupy 41% of those jobs – almost twice their share of all jobs.