1.   In South Korea, tens of thousands of workers walked off their jobs late last month to protest impending layoffs.

2.   Seven Mexican sanitation workers on a hunger strike to protest layoffs agreed to break their fast once a preliminary accord with top government officials is signed.

3.   Thousands of workers went on strike to protest growing layoffs in South Korea.

4.   Word of the agreement reached many of the affected workers as they gathered for a rally at Harlem Hospital to protest the layoffs.

5.   A nationwide strike Tuesday by workers protesting spreading layoffs had little impact on the market.

6.   A metalworker was allegedly shot dead by police during a rally to protest layoffs.

7.   A strike by postal workers protesting threatened layoffs closed post offices throughout Italy for the day Monday.

8.   As he called for unspecified reforms to labor laws to increase productivity, several unions were noisily marching through the streets of the capital to protest large-scale layoffs.

9.   Defying a government warning, a militant labor group said Monday it will go ahead with plans to organize a nationwide strike later this month to protest increasing layoffs.

10.   Demonstrators denounced the policy as depriving them of their right to work and May Day rallies were called to protest layoffs.