Sentence examples for workers pressure from inspiring English sources

(And overseas in Bangladesh, after a huge factory blaze in April left 1,100 people dead, massive strikes led to a 77percentt pay increase for Bangladeshi garment workers!) Pressure is now on Congress to increase the federal minimum wage, which has remained at a shameful $7.25 per hour for the past three years.

Mr. Ramirez said that he had reports of Green campaign workers pressuring Board of Elections staff to invalidate paper ballots in the Bronx.

Residents have been ordered to vacate the San Francisco homeless encampment under a highway overpass after police and public workers pressured the city's homeless to relocate there from areas of the city slated for Super Bowl 50 festivities.

Labor leaders say the measure would ease employer recriminations and threats against workers; critics say it would strip workers of their right to a private vote on a union, and potentially prompt intimidation of workers pressured to sign such authorization cards.

In the final weeks of the race, complaints surfaced about aggressive campaign workers pressuring voters to hand over ballots on behalf of Wendy Carrillo, who ultimately won the race.

Like passers, revealers may struggle with encouraging their subordinates to accept ideal-worker pressures, but they may shy away from advising resistance because they know the costs firsthand.

Steel asserts that California's rules allow for coercion, but he can cite only one alleged case, involving an Assembly race between two Democrats last year in which a single voter claimed a campaign worker pressured him to turn over his completed absentee ballot to her.

Democrats have stumped loudly for the extension, holding a press conference Wednesday with hundreds of unemployed workers to pressure their colleagues on the other side of the aisle.

But industrial action is the means that unions and workers exert pressure to win a bigger share of profit.

A slower economy, the thinking goes, reduces the demand for workers, taking pressure off employers to raise wages.

Heading to their crowded dormitory after a night shift, several workers said pressure and the frequent scolding by management might be factors.