| It was also utilised to break strikes by workers agitating for better working conditions and wages. |
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| If these workers were to ask for the same working conditions as workers here they would be out of a job very quickly. |
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| Some friends and I had a recent discussion about today's railroading and how working conditions had improved for train crews. |
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| Workers claim that they have been harassed and intimidated after complaining about working conditions and raising the issue of unionization. |
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| The working conditions for West Virginian coal miners in the 1920s were atrocious. |
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| I'm also prepared to stand up and be counted though, if I feel strongly about issues that affect my working conditions. |
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| He was a well-known advocate for better working conditions and higher pay for Cambodian workers. |
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| Therefore we shall be in a position to offer attractive wages and suitable working conditions. |
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| Employees are often forced to work a seven-day week and complain of low wages and poor working conditions. |
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| They can be put through wretched working conditions without a chance of redress. |
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| The strikers are demanding a salary increase, better working conditions and back pay totalling 16 billion kwacha. |
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| The Chief Minister, who had recently visited labour camps in the United Arab Emirates, said that the working conditions there were miserable. |
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| The sales of combine and silage harvesters dropped slightly, due in large measure to the difficult working conditions of the previous year. |
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| But with such working conditions employees are putting their livelihoods before making a stand. |
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| Management offered to lift the lockout if employees accept a proposal allowing the company to cut jobs and working conditions. |
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| The introduction of automation rapidly improved working conditions and productivity levels. |
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| As well as the withdrawal of suspensions, the employees want better working conditions and improved vehicle maintenance. |
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| The baggage handlers have been on strike since December 18 over a dispute about annual pay increases and working conditions. |
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| Sections of the city centre were brought to a halt by marchers protesting against job losses and poor working conditions. |
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| Some of them endure the most horrific working conditions in brothels and massage parlours. |
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| Increased union membership in the mid-twentieth century clearly helped, as workers bargained and lobbied for improved working conditions. |
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| If a nation enforced minimum wages or working conditions, industry would move to one where there was no enforcement. |
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| Illegal workers have to accept terribly low wages, miserable working conditions, and essentially no benefits. |
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| In the savage factory working conditions of the time, he introduced the novel concepts of steady wages, clean, humane conditions and a sick fund. |
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| I slave for hours on end in poor working conditions just to bring you a single morsel of edible hearty food! |
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| How about all the lives lost through unhealthy and dangerous working conditions, for which no compensation was ever awarded to the victims? |
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| About 360 students voted to unionize last March as a last-ditch attempt to pressure the administration over low pay and working conditions. |
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| Such unregulated production spawns the growth of child labor and of a disregard for working conditions in general. |
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| Such work by judges creates absolutely untenable working conditions for police officers. |
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| When they refused to accept new working conditions stipulated by the contractor, they were all sacked. |
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| He had led efforts to organize garment workers and to fight for improved working conditions in Cambodia. |
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| The strikers demanded a reduction in working hours and improved benefits and working conditions. |
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| One in eight workers noted that overcrowded working conditions contribute to their stress. |
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| All who drowned were illegal immigrants who endured the most horrific working conditions. |
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| The workers were demanding the payment of wage arrears and improved working conditions. |
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| Knowing they might lose their jobs, the coal miners refused to back down in their quest for safer working conditions and better pay. |
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| The Plaintiffs own views of the intolerableness of their working conditions is not sufficient to prove a constructive discharge. |
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| Those who sewed in the workshops of the fashionable London couturiers endured harsh working conditions. |
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| Five of his mother's brothers had gone down the pit and died prematurely because of their working conditions. |
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| The transmission is geared for power, economy and smooth transition, and is designed to withstand tough working conditions. |
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| However, I am aware that much coffee is produced under exploitative working conditions. |
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| After December, it will monitor the factory to see if it has made progress in improving working conditions. |
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| If you have to get up every morning and go to work, you may as well be guaranteed suitable working conditions and proper compensation. |
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| Then there were the wars and depressions, the material privations, Dickensian working conditions and relatively short life expectancies. |
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| A late 1930's photograph of the log cabin where her grandmother was posted as a district nurse suggests rough working conditions. |
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| Employers have exploited the situation to end strikes and press ahead with plans to cut jobs and working conditions. |
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| She gives attention to the working conditions of miners over time and across regions, yet the shortness of the book dictates a very abbreviated labour history. |
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| As far as worker exploitation goes, working conditions in black markets are nearly always worse. |
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| Resident doctors at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, in northern Nigeria, began an indefinite strike on July 15, in pursuance of improvements in working conditions. |
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| Lind pointed out that control of labour in Hawaii extended far beyond wages and working conditions to include the gamut of living conditions in the plantation work camps. |
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| What perhaps is more important are the abstruse figures, the figures that show that working conditions were traded off to earn the actual monetary income. |
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| In defiance of their trade unions, the workers were striking for improved working conditions and the release of a co-worker arrested for campaigning for a hartal. |
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| They were united in their disgust at economic inequalities, corporate rapaciousness, and subhuman working conditions. |
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| In a bid to end the dispute, NHS employers have presented a Scottish concordat that ties wage increases in with wide-sweeping changes to pay structures and working conditions. |
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| Other outstanding issues include working conditions and workplace safety. |
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| Manliness was essential for coping with such dangerous working conditions. |
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| The difference is that the government sets a lower limit to the movement of wages and also mandates working conditions and other benefits that are the same for everyone. |
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| Our research reveals a growing prevalence of precarious working conditions, zero-hours and temporary contracts, underemployment, and very low wages. |
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| They carried banners and chanted slogans condemning the government for making false election campaign promises that it would improve working conditions. |
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| The workers also protested against poor working conditions and job losses. |
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| At the same time, consumers have much to learn from the struggle for unions in the maquila in terms of their own efforts to improve their working conditions. |
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| Notwithstanding the difficult working conditions, a major inroad was made. |
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| The wages are low and the working conditions difficult, all in the service of chasing what for most will be an impossible dream. |
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| It has produced unfriendly working conditions for people with families. |
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| The children's health was also harmed by cramped working conditions and the loud music, which was played with the intention of keeping them entertained. |
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| The working conditions weren't exactly what he'd call prime. |
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| In May, workers walked off the job to protest unsafe working conditions. |
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| Moreover, in discussing spinning with a wheel, she notes how much change there was in working conditions as the middle ages continued into the early modern world. |
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| Modern occupational hygiene practices have eliminated the working conditions which caused this disease. |
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| The object of collective bargaining is for the employer and the union to come to an agreement over wages, benefits, and working conditions. |
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| In Algeria, public sector workers have mounted a general strike for higher wages and improved working conditions. |
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| Following nationalisation in 1947 working conditions improved but pay fell behind national averages. |
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| The chaos began on Friday when the wildcat strike began in a row with the government over working conditions and pay. |
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| Employees were terrorized into accepting abysmal working conditions. |
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| Hopefully, my reverse hunger strike will get people talking about these problems and improve working conditions. |
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| His primary intention was to expose dangerous working conditions in the meatpacking houses. |
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| Ordinary keys contain combinations of metals which may develop a thermal emf of one or more microvolts under usual working conditions. |
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| Starting with the Minitel of 1980s France, she traces the effects of Internet technology on prostitutes' working conditions. |
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| The migrant caregiver's almost slavelike working conditions illustrate the excesses of such a dynamic. |
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| She's been grousing to her boss about the working conditions. |
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| Vacation with pay, annual passes, and all around better working conditions. |
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| However, harsh working conditions were prevalent long before the Industrial Revolution took place. |
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| It was nominally to protect the living and working conditions for African slaves. |
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| Darwin was passionately opposed to slavery, while seeing no problem with the working conditions of English factory workers or servants. |
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| The war years saw great improvements in working conditions and welfare provisions, which paved the way for the postwar welfare state. |
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| The working conditions of staff are governed by the Council's staff regulations, which are public. |
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| In consequence, many working conditions are not negotiable due to a strong legal protection of individuals. |
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| In 1926, British miners went on strike over their appalling working conditions. |
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| For example, the trade union is a type of coalition which was formed in order to represent employees' wages, benefits, and working conditions. |
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| The working conditions were also considered to be extremely harsh and miserable. |
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| He taught school briefly in Glastonbury, but the working conditions were harsh and the pay low. |
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| However, the end of slavery did little to change the former slaves' working conditions if they stayed at their trade. |
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| Debate arose concerning the morality of the system, as workers complained about unfair working conditions prior to the passage of labour laws. |
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| The Leblanc process also meant very unpleasant working conditions for the operators. |
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| Children as young as four were employed in production factories and mines working long hours in dangerous, often fatal, working conditions. |
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| But councillor Cyril Annal said the real reason for looking abroad was poor staff working conditions. |
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| The representatives said that due to its vital role in the national economy, the working conditions need to be regularised. |
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| The long hours and poor working conditions led him to re-evaluate his job. |
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| Owen is best known for his efforts to improve the working conditions of his factory workers and his promotion of experimental socialistic communities. |
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| Long hours and hazardous working conditions led many workers to attempt to form labor unions despite strong opposition from industrialists and the courts. |
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| Nevertheless, the ratio does not give an indication of working conditions, number of hours worked per person, earnings or the size of the black market. |
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| Many liberals also believe that the government should regulate businesses to ensure safe and fair working conditions and to limit environmental pollution. |
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| The working conditions of women are key to understanding globalization and the new political economy in that the global labour force is being feminized in many ways. |
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| He nationalized strategic industries and services, improved wages and working conditions, paid the full external debt and achieved nearly full employment. |
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| The working conditions of staff are governed by the Communities' staff regulations and not directly by the labour laws of the countries of employment. |
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| In general, Costa Rican unions support government regulation of the banking, medical, and education fields, as well as improved wages and working conditions. |
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| The level of exposure to that agent depends on the duration of time spent in the gross anatomy laboratory, the working conditions there, and the type of embalming performed. |
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| The substance of my letter of November 11 was about the misogyny that surrounded the campaigns waged by women for equal working conditions alongside men. |
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| The Luddite movement emerged during the harsh economic climate of the Napoleonic Wars, which saw a rise of difficult working conditions in the new textile factories. |
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| The most compelling essay in How Race is Lived in America describes the horrific working conditions of a slaughterhouse in Tar Heel, North Carolina. |
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