Sentences with phrase «labour unrest in»

In August 2001 I decided to turn the ongoing labour unrest in B.C. at the time into a fanciful column called Why we should go on strike.

The Annual Reports of British Honduras for both 1927 and 1928 mention labour unrest in Captain Foote's operations during those years.

This is not the time for labour unrest in the State on something that is a compromise the Government had to make against the more rational option of cutting its coat according to the size of its cloth.

There was the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh last April 24, the continuing labour unrest in nearby Cambodia, factory fires in Pakistan and a renewed focus on child labour in Uzbekistan's annual cotton harvest.

Not exact matches

A miner addresses fellow workers during a march in South Africa, where the mining industry has been embroiled in violence and labour unrest.

His «Common Sense Revolution» in the 1990s slashed spending and pushed ahead with controversial changes to public services that sparked widespread labour unrest and sometimes violent demonstrations.

By contrast, in South Korea — Australia's second biggest Asian market — exports and industrial production have been disrupted by labour unrest, and corporate bankruptcies and political uncertainty have affected business confidence.

As Dan Hodges reports in this week's magazine (out today), sections of the party remain in a state of unease and unrest following Miliband's repudiation of New Labour.

Some members of the house had expressed concern over the spate of strikes and demonstrations in the country and appealed to the President to find a permanent solution to such labour unrests, since they affected economic progress.

The Labour leader raised the issue in the Commons yesterday during a debate on the unrest but it was rejected by Mr Cameron, who insisted the ongoing home affairs select committee inquiry was a satisfactory vehicle.

On February 2016, the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) in a letter to the then Labour Minister, Haruna Iddrisu, said the attitude and management style of Dr Opuni was creating tension among employees, unions, as well as management staff, which could soon trigger unrest.

Labour's five turbulent years of office from 1974 to 1979 came during the global oil crisis and also saw domestic unrest — from militant unions, inflation, IRA and coup talk — which stimulated growing attacks on the Westminster leadership for betrayal and incompetence in the face of harsh choices.

In today's News of the World, Fraser Nelson predicts that the Tories will inherit the unrest that will be needed to put right Labour's mess:

The former shadow business secretary has faced unrest among activists in the Wallasey constituency Labour party since she indicated that she might challenge Corbyn.

In late 2008 and early 2009, during a period of labour unrest and collective bargaining, Ms. Taylor - Baptiste was Mr. Dvorak's manager.

Social and labour activism (and governments» fear of unrest) were essential forces in establishing modern workers» compensation systems, including Ontario's in 1914.