11.   But both figures were higher than the ones given for Monday, as some hospital and broadcasting company workers joined the strike.

12.   Chamucero said that workers plan to block the entrances to the buildings where they work in an effort to put pressure on non-union workers to join the strike.

13.   Even with their statements of defiance, union leaders were not certain whether workers at two other Daewoo Motor plants would join the strike.

14.   Fighter-bombers also joined the strike.

15.   He needed the technical staff to join the strike to shut down the airwaves.

16.   Hyundai workers will also join the strike, it said.

17.   In a show of solidarity, public health workers, state-employed miners and some employees of the state petroleum company have joined the strike.

18.   Irate truckers joined the strike, as Indian groups blocked sections of the Pan-American Highway, the principle north-south route connecting Ecuador with Peru and Colombia.

19.   Labor union leaders are demanding that private-sector employees join the strikes, though the latter have done so only sporadically.

20.   Most classes continue even in the universities that have joined the strike.