11.   Olympic Airways employees were to strike to protest plans to privatize the debt-ridden state airline.

12.   Police officers striking to protest alleged racism at their Soweto station were suspended Thursday.

13.   Scuffles broke out among journalists on Saturday as they debated whether to strike to protest a controversial new press law.

14.   The violence began after taxivan and bus crews, striking to protest the gasoline hikes, turned on commuters who hitched rides in private vehicles.

15.   Thousands of Romanian workers strike to protest poverty.

16.   Workers strike to protest labor bill.

17.   Japanese harbor workers last month staged a one-day strike to protest the US sanctions threat.