Sentence examples for workers occupy from inspiring English sources

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

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.

And there are victories, too – as when workers occupy their factory in Chicago to win the pay that they are owed.

"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.

When sex workers are cast in this role, as mute icon or service instrument, it's the anti-prostitution camp at work, decrying sex workers' situation yet abandoning them to the fundamentally passive role they insist sex workers occupy in prostitution.

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

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

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

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

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