11.   The FNT had also accused the government of breaking promises given during a similar strike in May not to dismiss large numbers of state employees.

12.   State-sector workers went on strike in response, ignoring government restrictions on those in essential services.

13.   In June Saibou announced plans to establish a multiparty democracy which were confirmed after a five-day national strike in November.

14.   The implications of such reforms caused growing social unrest and there were strikes in the public sector, which was threatened with mass redundancies.

15.   A rise in April prompted by uncertainty of African production, strikes in Peru and supply disruptions resulting from US labour contract negotiations, failed to gain ground.

16.   In February state farm workers, teachers and transport workers staged strikes, and May saw a wave of strikes mainly in the transport and mining industries.

17.   There were strikes in June by railway workers, employees of the giant Faur engineering factory, taxi drivers, teachers, doctors and other medical personnel.

18.   The response had been massive strikes in the public sector.

19.   Political unrest and opposition-organized strikes in April had been provoked by economic hardship, for which the opposition had blamed the Nepali Congress Party.

20.   Hard on the heels of the Moroccan crisis came a wave of strikes in Asturias, Navarre and the Basque Country, in protest against economic hardship.