In 1981, major league baseball players began a 49-day strike over the issue of free-agent compensation.
And Germany's Lufthansa, whose ground crew and cabin staff are on strike over pay, fell 3%.
The row came as up to 130, 000 CWU members strike over pay and pensions.
The move comes as some civil servants stage a one-day strike over pay and pensions.
Ambulance workers in Yorkshire have voted to go on a 24-hour strike over staffing changes.
About 3, 000 members of Nipsa are staging an indefinite strike over pay and job re-grading.
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Staff at two Coventry schools are on strike over plans to turn their institutions into academies.
Health workers in the north-east of England are on strike over changes to their travel costs.
Journalists from BBC Wales are taking part in a UK-wide strike over compulsory redundancies.
Some Peruvians worry that a truckers' strike over fuel prices is also aimed at causing chaos.
About 200 schools in Northamptonshire are facing disruption caused by the national strike over public sector pensions.
The bulk of the work stoppages in 2010 came during a public-workers strike over higher pay demands.
Hundreds of bus services have been cancelled as bus workers in Devon and Cornwall strike over pay.
Railway signal workers in Scotland could vote to strike over a dispute over working patterns in Stirling.
Miners at the platinum firm Lonmin returned to work last month after a separate strike over wages.
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Warwick held his nerve to strike over the 22-metre penalty in the driving rain to restore Munster's lead.
Staff at Kent's largest further education college have held a half-day strike over plans to cut 145 jobs.
The protest comes on the fourth day of a five-day strike over proposed jobs losses and pay cuts.
Added to that, the players have twice threatened to go on strike over unpaid wages dating back to November.
German airline Lufthansa has cancelled the majority of its flights scheduled for Monday due to a strike over pay.
Some healthcare workers, who look after people with learning difficulties in Lincolnshire, have gone on strike over a pay dispute.
The picket at Grangemouth comes just months after a 48-hour strike over pensions resulted in the refinery being shut down.
Malouda wastefully drilled his first strike over the crossbar while Jaaskelainen made an excellent low save from his second effort.
Workers at computer services firm Capita have voted to go on strike over job losses and work going to India.
According to a person familiar with the negotiations, however, this was because of the Hollywood writers' strike over new media.
Journalists and technical staff at BBC Wales have begun a 12-hour strike over redundancies and claims of bullying across the corporation.
Around 300 British Telecom workers in Northern Ireland have gone on strike over what have been described as "intolerable" working conditions.
But a narrowly averted strike over pay by airline staff in the run-up to Christmas delayed, and may block, the switch.
Civil servants from government departments and driving test centres have taken part in a strike over pay, jobs and terms and conditions.
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