91.   Meanwhile, public doctors were expected to decide this weekend whether to accept a union request to join the strike.

92.   Medical workers in several other towns have joined the strike.

93.   Miners in the Siberian town of Berezovsky were the latest to join the strike, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Thursday.

94.   More workers threaten to join strike.

95.   On Thursday, Bratislava students sent envoys to all university towns throughout Slovakia to inform students outside Bratislava about the situation and examine their readiness to join a strike.

96.   On Tuesday, union workers extended the boycott to three vessels in Finnish ports, and the Transport Workers Union said it will join the strike.

97.   Others join the strike regularly, but not at every meal.

98.   PAP reported hospitals and clinics in northwestern and central Poland joined the strike by cutting service to emergency treatment only.

99.   Peled did not say how many people would join the strike.

100.   Other unions, mainly of government workers, are threatening to join the strike.