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  • In April, Network Rail used similar tactics when it stopped a strike by the RMT, the railworkers union.

    British Airways flyers face summer of disruption as no accord in sight 2010

  • The conference, representing some 1,300 members, formed itself into the S.A. Railway and Harbour Workers 'Union and adopted a programme of demands - a minimum wage of 1s. an hour; one week's annual leave on full pay; equal opportunities to become skilled; an increase in the number of African and Coloured railworkers; and an end to the policy of displacing them with whites.

    Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 22 Ray Esther 1969

  • The Spoorbond's main achievement was to isolate white railworkers from Africans and

    Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 22 Ray Esther 1969

  • The first and most successful of - these efforts was the Spoorbond, a union of railworkers organized in 1934 with the backing of the Afrikaner Broederbond.

    Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 22 Ray Esther 1969

  • The Work Foundation's Brinkley said: This isn't like the days of the famous Triple Alliance, between railworkers, coalworkers and steelworkers in the 1970s, which could bring the economy to a halt.

    Reuters: Top News 2011

  • In a classic anecdote of ethnic masquerade, Paiute Indians from the Pyramid Reservation were brought in to double as Chinese railworkers.

    Twitch 2010

  • One of the topics of our conversation was Dennis James 'insistence of announcing the presence of Chinese railworkers - as David Kiehn noted in the program, some of whom were actually played by Paiute Indians - with a dadadada dutdut dum dum dummmmmm twiddling of the Wurlizter ivories.

    GreenCine Daily craig@greencine.com 2010

  • Labour news from India Unilever, Asia asbestos campaign, ATNC anti-union repression rallies, Japan railworkers compensation.

    rabble.ca - News for the rest of us asia pacific currents 2010

  • Rail in its attempt to stop a strike by the RMT, the railworkers union, last month

    WN.com - Articles related to British Airways fuel price-fixing trial collapses 2010

  • He ran to a nearby town and was hidden overnight by railworkers.

    TheSunNews.com: Local 2010

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