Members wondered if they could spread the word for a brief strike to protest inflation.
His fellow agents threatened to strike in protest at lack of support from their employer.
On March 19th, trade unionists launched a three-day strike to protest against intimidation by the police.
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He also came out against rising malpractice insurance, which has recently caused hundreds of doctors to strike in protest.
But the union went on strike in protest, and Mr Fox caved in.
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Ostreicher is nearly two months into a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.
Workers at the Spanish airline Iberia have begun a five-day strike in protest at planned cuts to jobs and salaries.
The detention of Ostreicher, who at one point went on a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment, drew international attention.
On July 15th, 120, 000 members of bank-workers' unions plan to stage a national strike to protest against their industry's forced shrinkage.
In Kenya, several hundred refugees who had fled violence in Zanzibar began a hunger strike in protest at their treatment by Kenya's authorities.
On 8 October, staff from the college held a half-day strike in protest at the job cuts, with 150 demonstrating outside the Tonbridge campus.
In November, about 20, 000 doctors in government and private hospitals in Bihar went on strike in protest at the killing of a local surgeon.
As we have seen several times over the last year, they will take to the Streets in a 24-hour strike to protest the new cuts.
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Hundreds of Peruvian farm workers marched through Lima at the start of a two-day national strike to protest against under-investment in farming by the government.
Several imprisoned asylum seekers have been on hunger strike in protest.
One side-effect of the cost-cutting was a labour dispute in the summer of 1997, when short-haul cabin crews went on strike to protest against changes in their working patterns.
The one-day strike in protest against further cuts was organized by the two biggest unions in the country, with rallies in a number of cities across Greece, including Patras, west of Athens.
In fact, the holiday is so significant that when there was a strike by jewelry shops a year ago to protest higher taxes on gold, the strike was called off a day ahead of the holiday so consumers could buy, Savant said.
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Pro-Telangana activists said Monday's strike was to protest against police restrictions on their movements.
This idea alarmed the company's North American workers, who recently went on strike partly to protest about the threat to jobs.
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) said the strike was in protest at a decision to consult to change from maintained schools to academies.
The police are already threatening to defy a no-strike law in protest, and other public-sector workers are preparing to hold ballots on industrial action.
Pakistan said on Tuesday that it was not attending the talks in protest at a Nato air strike which killed 24 of its soldiers at the weekend.
The news about Oakland traveled around the world early this week, and now some within the movement think it provides them with a reason to escalate the protest into attempting a general strike next week, something that has not been tried in the U.S. since pre-World War II.
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Large areas of southern India went on strike on Friday in protest at the possible removal of Rabri Devi's government.
Jamaat rejects the tribunal and staged a strike on Thursday in protest.
College staff held a half-day strike on Monday in protest at the job cuts, with 150 demonstrating outside the meeting at its Tonbridge campus.
Transport workers in Bolivia have begun an indefinite strike, called in protest at an increase of more than 70% in the price of fuel.
Thousands of Airbus employees went on strike in France to protest against a radical company restructuring that has drawn criticism from candidates in France's fiercely contested presidential race.
In Romania, too, public-sector unions are up in arms over spending cuts that were decreed under a bail-out agreed with the IMF and EU. Portugal's public workers held a 24-hour strike in March to protest against a wage freeze.
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