Sentence examples for workers parliament from inspiring English sources

Now, we are both stunned and thrilled to see that this global action is truly escalating and gaining force, with union workers, parliament members, celebrities and women of all backgrounds coming forward to join the campaign.

Osborne has tried to bounce a major change affecting all current workers through parliament with no scrutiny.

The party set up by trade unions to represent the interests of workers in parliament no longer commands the allegiance of those people.

From the terminal: Greek police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators in Athens on Wednesday as thousands of striking workers marched to parliament to protest austerity measures.

A few hours before the first presidential vote took place, several hundred public sector workers marched on parliament with banners and slogans held aloft.

The Parliament worker who was kidnapped, Peter Tsiskarishvili, was also abducted by men armed with machine guns.

Some regional MPs who are on the backbenches might push a genuine pro-workers stance in parliament.

Today just 4 per cent of our MPs were manual workers before they entered Parliament, compared to 16 per cent in 1979.

Individual provisions were approved on Thursday as workers protested outside the Parliament building, and the whole package passed Thursday night by a vote of 157-134.

The ACTU secretary, Dave Oliver, told Guardian Australia his expectation was Katter would stand up for the rights of workers in the new parliament.

The military has also retained an anachronistic quota, reserving at least half of the new Parliament for "workers and farmers," a rule that has been used to manipulate election results in Egypt since the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser.