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Seven pit workers are allowed over the wall to service a car.

The other pit workers kept their distance and said nothing.

Billy turned away and moved to where the other pit workers were making formation.

Perhaps it has to do with a new group of pit workers coming to the village."

The village expanded considerably to accommodate the pit workers.

Some managers felt that his managerial grading system pitted workers against one another, lowering morale.

Around 700 pit workers were made redundant, just two years after the colliery was praised by the Government for breaking production records.

This will pit worker against worker and employers will spend more time negotiating with unions than they do focusing on creating new jobs.

The strikes have in essence pitted workers demanding higher wages and better working conditions against the Government, which is determined to prevent a new cycle of inflation.

The new rules pit workers against business over safety issues as nothing has since Congress created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 1970.

"The management actually pits worker against worker," asserted Larry Lehmann, a former union representative who no longer works at the plant.

Health Concerns in Strike The 10-week struggle here pitted workers against employers, but the dispute was at times overshadowed by health concerns.

Women pit workers were admitted as members of the Federation after the first World War though work at collieries was considered an unsuitable job for women.

Up to the second world war, a well known sight was a single wagon train carrying clay pit workers back to their homes in Ridge in this way.

Basic housing for pit workers housing was constructed in Long Row, behind Morpeth Street, and demolished a century later.

Former pit worker cottages still remain along Willenhall Lane and St James Lane.

In 1906, an explosion in the mine killed many of the pit workers in Wingate, and in 2006 a march took place to commemorate the miners.

They have created a new civil war among firms and among regions of the country competing for job-creating investments, and they have pitted worker against worker.

Job Fears Drive Strike New York City's building maintenance strike pits workers' fears of job loss against management's desire to hold down costs.

The action not only pitted workers against management and against Chicago police on horseback, it also exposed divisions in the union-namely that the organization did not support its unskilled members.

Towards the end, when the pit workers were weary and facing defeat, and we were fed up with policing picket lines all day every day, the atmosphere began to get very tense.

One of many such clubs in the South Wales Valleys, the club was paid for from contributions deducted from pit workers' wages to provide social and educational facilities for the employees.

Instead of finger-pointing, both sides need to recognize that the root cause of their dispute is the tax system, which pits workers against managers, and rewards health-cost inflation while denying help to millions of Americans who need it.

Cutting wages or benefits for new hires, some U.A.W. members argued, could pit workers against one another and jeopardize the benefits of retirees down the road, when the new workers collectively have enough votes to strike back.

The fight, waged in public hearings that began Friday and in television advertising, pits workers and businesses interested in economic development against opponents of nuclear weapons who say there is a surplus of plutonium and the plant is unnecessary.