The bulk of the work stoppages in 2010 came during a public-workers strike over higher pay demands.
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Adding downward pressure, Brazilian oil giant Petrobras said its oil output was back at full capacity and would remain so through the end of a five-day energy workers strike that started at midnight Sunday.
The end to a oil workers' strike in also contributed to the drop in crude prices.
He was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968, while helping lead sanitation workers on strike.
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The 1911 Llanelli Riot saw the army shoot during a railway workers' strike.
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It comes as ballot papers are sent to 20, 000 workers over strike action.
In 1951 he persuaded Antigua's sugar workers to strike for more pay.
No, because I was one of those MPs who had been to Northern Ireland at the time of the Ulster Workers' Strike.
He stopped short of describing the extra temporary workers as strike-breakers.
The question of who contributes what to health-care provision was one of the chief sticking points that prompted New York's transport workers to strike in December.
The head of the local organising committee, Danny Jordan, said that he recognises the right of workers to strike, but that match day disruptions were unacceptable.
As 2010 has unfurled and we have seen Athens ablaze in May and workers on strike elsewhere it has been claimed by many wise economic heads that the chaos of breaking up the Euro would be too costly to bear?
The majority of workers who participated in this strike were workers from the OQC (onsite quality control) line.
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All one hundred and thirty-four factory workers joined the strike, which began in August of 2008.
When Philippine Airlines workers went on strike last year, he didn't side with labor.
Under current law, when workers go on strike, a company may bring in replacements.
He denied having a strategy to force workers out on strike purely so he could fire them.
Yorkshire ambulance workers could take strike action in a dispute over staff changes and derecognition of the UK's largest union.
Both Thyssen and Krupp's workers went on strike and there was talk of a customer boycott of the two banks.
Centerra had a brief issue with its Kumtor mine, located in the Kyrgyz republic, when workers went on strike last month.
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Earlier this month, ScotRail workers called off strike action which had been due to take place on 22 December and Christmas Eve.
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Last October, the company fired 12, 000 workers after a strike over wages.
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The technical and administration workers ended their strike last fall after receiving a pay increase and extra benefits but no direct contract with Sonatrach.
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Mr Berlusconi has faced continued criticism from inside Italy, where the euro hit a further hitch when bank workers went on strike on Monday.
The attack came on the heels of industrial unrest at the Algerian gas facility, where hundreds of Algerian workers went on strike June 21.
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Some 1500 workers held a strike at the Media City, a center for television and movie production in a satellite city in the desert outside the capital.
This is a fact that should be remembered on a day when French workers go on strike and take to street as they bemoan the idea of increasing the retirement age.
The airline maker Boeing has had its plants shut down since workers went on strike in early September, but Boeing and its machinist union say they reached an agreement last night that should end the dispute.
At home, Ecevit was responsible for authorizing trade unions and giving workers the right to strike.
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