school-dinner lady

plural school-dinner ladies

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of school dinner lady.

   The school-dinner ladies of Britain do not make for militant Socialists.

   1981 October 4, Robert Taylor, “No Bennite concessions”, in The Observer, number 9919, page 15

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   KNOWSLEY’S school-dinner ladies are to hold a one-day token strike, on Friday, as part of a dispute over cuts in their working hours.

   1977 November 23, Mark Thomas, “School Dinner Ladies to Strike in Cuts Row”, in Liverpool Echo, number 30,414, page 7

   WILTSHIRE County Council was today accused of hoodwinking workers in the school-dinner ladies’ redundancy row.

   1980 June 21, Chris Hewett, “Council accused of hoodwink”, in Evening Post, number 14,843, page 1

   Four school-dinner ladies sacked by labour-controlled Walsall council for refusing to join a trade union under a closed-shop agreement will not be reinstated although an industrial tribunal in Birmingham ruled they were unfairly dismissed and should be reinstated.

   1982 March 9, “Sacking Confirmed”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 39419, page 2

   NINE school-dinner ladies sacked by Somerset county council will ask an industrial tribunal in Bristol next week to rule that they were unfairly dismissed.

   1983 November 17, “Sacked dinner ladies go to law”, in Evening Post, number 15,617, page 57

   The Tory city council is going beyond all boundaries of civilised behaviour by sacking school-dinner ladies and re-employing them only on dictated terms.

   1984 March 8, David Sutton, “Class hatred”, in Birmingham Evening Mail, page 7