Sentence examples for workers resistance from inspiring English sources

If inflation remains low for an extended period, workers' resistance to nominal wage cuts might fade.

This is most likely why the government is increasingly anxious to institutionalise workers' resistance: to slow it down and manage it through a bargaining process rather than risk continual, sometimes violent conflict.

Workers and organizers are troubled by what they say is a lack of respect for workers, resistance to worker control, a rubberstamp decision-making process, and the overall direction of the campaign.

They ratified a practice that had spread to tire makers, heavy-equipment manufacturers, parts plants, groceries, retailers and longshoremen, diluting older workers' resistance by preserving their status, while lowering earning power for new hires.

It didn't happen, because the Lancashire workers were so against it; when the great American historian John Jay Chapman listed the English liberals whose words were most responsible for the workers' resistance to slavery, he placed first the name of John Stuart Mill.

"The Jar" is a comedic, jubilant, Chaplinesque story of a feudal lord's vanity and his dependent workers' resistance to his cruelty; "Requiem," the tale of an elderly farmer's impending death, sets tradition into conflict with law, and another feudal lord (backed by the state) into conflict with the populace.

The state has stopped vaccinating emergency and health care workers for smallpox after meeting worker resistance, Commissioner Clifton R. Lacy of the State Department of Health and Senior Services said yesterday.

Companies pulled back from such statistical analysis of employees in the 1970s, amid questions about its effectiveness, worker resistance and a wave of anti-discrimination lawsuits.

General Motor's Opel unit, represented by the IG Metall union in Germany, has struggled for more than a decade to cut costs and stem losses in the face of strong worker resistance.

This process was intended to produce less expensive muskets that were easier to make and repair, but worker resistance delayed large-scale manufacture of small arms using interchangeable parts until the early 1800s.

Low health worker satisfaction, inappropriate incentive structures, and fear of facility bankruptcy have led to health worker resistance to provide friendly, comprehensive, and high-quality care to CBI enrollees [ 23, 25].