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  • FRANKFURT — German employers and metal-workers 'union IG Metall Thursday agreed a two-year wage deal aimed at job protection for roughly 700,000 workers in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

    German Union Agrees to Pay Deal Nina Koeppen 2010

  • However, firearms made by master stockmakers, metal-workers and other artisans capture my attention.

    How Good is Good Enough? 2008

  • FRANKFURT — German employers and metal-workers 'union IG Metall Thursday agreed a two-year wage deal aimed at job protection for roughly 700,000 workers in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

    German Union Agrees to Pay Deal Nina Koeppen 2010

  • The most striking example of an elaborate classification according to craft is found in the metal-workers: the farriers, knife-makers, locksmiths, chain-forgers, nail-makers, often formed separate and distinct corporations; the armourers were divided into helmet-makers, escutcheon-makers, harness-makers, harness-polishers, etc.

    The Guilds 2007

  • In 1956 a Merseyside dispute between joiners and metal-workers about who should drill the holes in aluminium sheets led to a strike which lasted six months and attracted national attention.

    Why is Europe Stagnating? - The Austrian Economists 2006

  • Creatures of another reality, they were elementals, serving the elements of coal, as the metal-workers were elementals, serving the element of iron.

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

  • On the other hand, they seem to preserve a flavour of ancient civilization, which it is not easy to describe; and they certainly have inherited the instincts and tastes of the old metal-workers: they are a race of born miners.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • It would remain on the wind which came in from the Sighing Desert, in the music of the fountains, the clang of the metal-workers 'and jewellers' hammers as they fashioned their wares.

    The Fortress of the Pearl Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1989

  • We've few metal-workers, and none of them mages-and we don't go in for short-swords, anyway.

    The Oathbound Lackey, Mercedes 1988

  • The orientals had certain processes, descended to them from remote times, discovered and practiced by the first metal-workers that ever lived.

    Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele

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