31.   Workers demanded higher wages and got them.

32.   Workers took over the administration building at a public university campus in northern Sinaloa state demanding higher wages.

33.   Police in Lesotho used tear gas and clubs Monday to break up a protest by clothing workers demanding better wages and working conditions.

34.   Owners of gasoline stations shut down on the eve of the election to protest low prices, and police threatened a strike to demand higher wages.

35.   A national strike by government workers to demand higher wages continued for a second day Friday, shutting down many schools and routine state services.

36.   A wave of coal miners protests began in May to demand back wages and oppose moves to shut the unprofitable mines.

37.   Angry repairmen demanding overdue wages turned off most elevators Tuesday in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, including those inside the city administration building.

38.   Apart from problems with price and bad weather, the industry has been beset by dozens of pay strikes as workers demand higher wages.

39.   Another six months were lost as air traffic controllers demanded wages comparable with their counterparts abroad to go along with their international-standard equipment.

40.   As tensions mounted between President Hugo Chavez and opposition labor groups, tens of thousands of oil workers went on strike Wednesday to demand higher wages.