Sentence examples for worker opposition from inspiring English sources

The statement from Opel/Vauxhall workers Friday signaled the struggle that awaits G.M. as it tries to cut costs in the face of determined worker opposition.

But by the 1980s and 1990s, mill owners were moving their operations to the hinterland, in the teeth of worker opposition, and the state government had begun to look for ways to allow their closure.

Under this provision the leaders of the "Workers' Opposition" were purged and all subsequent signs of independence in worker circles repressed.

Lenin also responded vigorously to dissent in the labour movement, the so-called "Workers' Opposition," led by Bolshevik veterans who objected to the bureaucratization of the state and the elimination of workers from decision making.

Since the war began, Reyhanli's population of sixty thousand has nearly doubled thanks to an influx of Syrian refugees, aid workers, opposition members, many of whom relocated because of Reyhanli's majority-Sunni population.

At 71 – in a country where life expectancy for men is 58 – he is considered one of the grandfathers of postwar Burundi, celebrated for his tireless work in exposing attacks on human rights workers, opposition politicians and journalists, enforced disappearances, illegal detention and torture.

Among health workers, opposition to free services was more widespread, although not total.

Among health workers, opposition to providing free services was more widespread.

Hesham Kassem, a human rights worker and opposition leader, said that in spite of the report, he had little hope that those responsible would be held accountable.

In a counterprotest on Sept. 17, more than 1,000 Latino and Sudanese workers lined up alongside white workers in opposition to the concessions to the Somalis.

Tea Party activists, they wrote, "define themselves as workers, in opposition to categories of nonworkers they perceive as undeserving of government assistance".