Zimbabwe's Top Trade Unionists Arrested During Anti-Poverty Demonstration

By: Voice of America, November 8, 2005 The president and secretary general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions are among several labor officials arrested before peaceful demonstrations were broken up by riot police in Harare and Bulawayo. The demonstrations were against the rising cost of living and cheap imported Chinese goods, which unionists say are causing job losses in the manufacturing sector. DD 11.10.2005

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