Even so, he says, when BT went on to cut about 80,000 jobs in the early 1990s, it had to do so in co-operation with the unions, and pay workers big redundancy packages.

即便如此，他说，在90年代初BT削减约80,000个工作时，最终也不得不与公会妥协，支付给工人相当数额的裁员补贴。

youdao

Workers, trade unions and politicians in old Europe mourned each factory moving east.

随着一座座工厂东迁，旧欧洲的工人、公会和政客们不禁连声哀叹。

youdao

Critics of the law say that they make unions weaker and can keep wages lower for workers.

批评家们称法律使公会更为疲弱并且让工人们的工资更低。

youdao

Mother Jones believed that unions represented the best hope for coal miners and other workers to improve their lives.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Woody Guthrie was a voice for labor unions and striking workers and families beaten down by the Great Depression in the nineteen thirties.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

Workers said their unions could not negotiate with the new industrial giants.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Last December, about 4, 000 members of the Amicus and Transport Workers unions began industrial action in a row over pay and cost-cutting.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | Shorts pay dispute resolved

Walker's message -- that state workers unions had too much power and were preventing necessary budget cuts -- resonated with voters, Gergen said.

CNN: SHARE THIS

Negotiations followed industrial action by about 4, 000 members of the Amicus and Transport Workers unions earlier this month in a row over pay and cost-cutting at Northern Ireland's biggest manufacturing firm.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | Shorts talks break down