Meanwhile, teachers, their pay frozen in the budget, have been on strike for nearly a month.
In 1984, the coal miners union of Arthur Scargill went on strike for nearly a year.
In Sri Lanka district and magistrate court judges went on strike for two days in protest.
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Flamini's strike for Arsenal came after Bendtner had chested a cross from Gael Clincy into his path.
The GMB and Unite unions said its members were planning a second strike for Thursday 26 July.
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The country's largest trade union, the General Union of Tunisian Workers, called a general strike for Friday.
Council staff in north London have gone on strike for the fourth time in protest at outsourcing plans.
More optimistic individuals picked up more than 1, 000 calls at the higher June 12.5 strike for approximately 10 cents per contract.
It suspended the auctions for two days last week after 45, 000 bank employees joined the strike for 48 hours.
Mali's private media went on strike for four days following Mr Daou's arrest.
Italy's three main labour groups jointly declared a general strike for next month.
After Mr Sarkozy's speech the railway unions called a strike for October 17th.
Like many other state firms, it has problems with unions (in November the oil union held a strike for higher wages).
In 1951 he persuaded Antigua's sugar workers to strike for more pay.
They are on strike for half a day on Thursday and are taking part in a mass rally outside Hexham General Hospital.
Al-Khawaja has been on a hunger strike for more than two months.
Three people were arrested during the strike for going beyond a police line at Madrid's Barajas airport, a government spokesman told CNN.
Andreas Hinkel set up Scott McDonald's 39th-minute strike for the opener. and seven minutes into the second-half Samaras nodded in a close-range header.
It is most common among young people, and is most likely to strike for the first time between the ages of 20 and 25.
Cross-border travel was not a huge consideration in the political climate of the day, and the decision was made to strike for the west.
John Sutton passed up several chances on either side of the interval to restore parity and Michael Fraser kept out a Jack Compton strike for Falkirk.
Capello's men secured their place in the second phase despite failing to convincingly beat Slovenia after Jermain Defoe's 22nd minute strike for England in Port Elizabeth.
Around 45, 000 Verizon employees from two labor unions who were on strike for most of August were counted as a subtractions from the total jobs number.
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In view of the fact that there has not been a national teachers' pay strike for almost 40 years, he was asked how serious the threat was.
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It was the first goal Liverpool had conceded in over seven hours of football, since Jermaine Beckford's strike for Everton in the 2-2 draw at Anfield on 16 January.
His last strike for Blues came almost a year ago when he came off the bench to hit the only goal of the game in a 1-0 win at Hull.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians went on strike for 48 hours last September before agreeing to a salary increase of 0.72% in 2012-13, followed by 1.25% and 2.46% in the following two years.
Mr Tsvangirai has sought to secure their loyalty by promising that civil servants, many of whom have been on strike for months, would be paid in foreign currency instead of worthless Zimbabwean dollars.
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Lecturers at 290 colleges across England and Wales went on strike for a day in May and further action is on the cards if the ballot goes the way the union's leadership has recommended.
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