Sentence examples for workers organising from inspiring English sources

They described Hong Kong as the "city of modern slavery", but also as home to a vibrant movement of domestic workers organising for their rights and dignity.

"[The lack of support from the ILWU] sheds light on the fact that our unions have been hamstrung and made ineffective by laws designed to curtail workers organising for their rights to better pay and conditions in this country," Iorio said.

The number of unions has increased but, two years on, some factory owners in Bangladesh are still trying to stop workers organising.

Sensationalising the worst examples is a neat way not to talk about the continuum of exploitation, which exists throughout the labour market, and which is best solved by workers organising themselves.

The village health workers organising the session are pleased to see such a wide audience.

This is where governments and workers organising and standing up for their own rights has to be the way forward.

The anger spread to factories, where workers organised a general strike that paralysed the nation.

It says that China fails to let workers organise, it harasses would-be union leaders and it fosters an overall climate of poor labour standards, including low pay.

Lucas workers organised road-shows, teach-ins, and created a Centre for Alternative Industrial and Technological Systems (CAITS) at North-East London Polytechnic.

Deregulation and liberalisation allowed capital to flee those places workers organised and increased the size of the potential labour market, forcing down wages.

Industrial unrest has broken out sporadically in China for many years but labour activists say the latest cluster of strikes represents a new trend as workers organise more effectively and ask not just for pay rises but structural reforms allowing them to engage in collective bargaining.