Sentence examples for opposition workers from inspiring English sources

Because of the intensity of employer opposition, workers who seek to unionize risk polarizing their communities.

Tonderai Chakanetsa, a farmer from the Mudzi district of Mashonaland East, was one of those opposition workers.

Senator Pervez Rasheed, a spokesman for Mr. Sharif, said raids were being conducted at the houses and offices of opposition workers and leaders across Punjab.

The Pakistani authorities recently detained more than 100 opposition workers, including some leading politicians, according to officials, to stop them from organizing protests outside the court.

Although no major violence was reported, the rallies attended by opposition workers, housewives and union members were the first major protest against Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's economic policies.

On May 11, four days before the election, Mr. Komichi and other opposition workers were jailed after government supporters attacked young men putting up posters about a speech by the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai.

Some of the farmers interviewed in recent days said their attackers had demanded lists of opposition party members in their areas, including Daniel Muchuchuti, a farmer and opposition worker in a rural part of Masvingo Province.

Some 600 people, mostly opposition party workers, have been arrested in the past few months, Mr Nasheed complains.

Mr. Rasheed said 450 opposition party workers had been arrested while "others have managed to escape or gone underground".

The arrests were made early Tuesday, with police hauling away opposition party workers across Pakistan's most populous province, Punjab, opposition leaders said.

On Monday, opposition party workers burned buses and shut down businesses in the eastern city of Calcutta to enforce a 12-hour strike to protest rising food prices.