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  • noun Plural form of worker.

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Examples

  • What Noel Beasley is describing is such an affront to workers I wanted to make sure everyone concerned about workers\ 'rights reads it.

    Bruce Raynor: Say No to Backroom Deals and Payoffs - Let the Workers Vote 2009

  • What Noel Beasley is describing is such an affront to workers I wanted to make sure everyone concerned about workers\ 'rights reads it.

    Bruce Raynor: Say No to Backroom Deals and Payoffs - Let the Workers Vote 2009

  • WAGE & HOUR ENFORCEMENT DROPS, WORKERS CHEATED '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Enforcement of wage-and-hour laws, to ensure workers get at least the minimum wage and the overtime pay they deserve, has dropped drastically under the GOP Bush government, impartial investigators and a low-income workers\ 'advocate told Congress.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: WITNESSES: BUSH LABOR DEPT. WAGE & HOUR ENFORCEMENT DROPS, WORKERS CHEATED 2008

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Construction Companies Use \'Independent Contractor\' Dodge Costly to Workers, States, Firms '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' The "independent contractor" dodge -- a tactic unscrupulous construction companies use to avoid treating their workers legally, paying taxes and following workers\ 'comp and other laws -- is costly to workers, governments and even other construction firms, two witnesses told the House

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Construction Companies Use 'Independent Contractor' Dodge Costly to Workers, States, Firms 2007

  • Pundits still dumbfounded, even as workers 'share of gains hits 40-year low yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Pundits still dumbfounded, even as workers\ 'share of gains hits 40-year low'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Commentators look at today\'s Wall Street Journal headline blaring that "Corporate Pretax Profits Jump 14.4% - Strongest Gain Since 1992" and wonder: why ordinary Americans aren\'t jumping with joy?

    Pundits still dumbfounded, even as workers' share of gains hits 40-year low 2006

  • He joined forces with Comrades Jay Naidoo, Johnny Makhathini, Kenneth Dladla, Theo Nene, Pat Honn and many others and began to organise workers into general workers¹ unions.

    COMRADE MOSES NDLOVU TO BE LAID TO REST TOMORROW 2004

  • How workers are affected depends on work conditions, on the fairness of wages, on workers’ rights, and on how much respect and equality exists between workers and bosses.

    Chapter 6 1999

  • In response to this situation, researchers at the Universidad Autnoma Metropolitana in Mexico City developed and tested participatory techniques that enable workers in developing countries to measure for themselves occupational hazards and their impact on workers’ health.

    60. Inexpensive blood-screening for HIV 1992

  • Plus stories about how the management of a bigger textile company in Okhla got rid of permanent workers by making use of repression and by taking advantage of the workers� trust in their official representatives.

    unknown title 2009

  • Plus stories about how the management of a bigger textile company in Okhla got rid of permanent workers by making use of repression and by taking advantage of the workers� trust in their official representatives.

    unknown title 2009

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