11.   The Canadian strikes shut down car and truck assembly plants and some U.S. and Mexican parts plants.

12.   The national strike would shut down all Brazilian ports, Fernandes said.

13.   The rise came even as a three-week public sector strike shut down commuter trains to its Disneyland Paris theme park.

14.   The strike shut down oil production, left gasoline stations without fuel and led to widespread shortages of gas used for cooking.

15.   The strike has shut down mail services, railways, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and all banks.

16.   The strike would shut down service on virtually all routes.

17.   A dawn-to-dusk strike Sunday shut down major cities across Bangladesh, including capital Dhaka.

18.   A national strike has shut down poultry slaughterhouses across Denmark, and chickens are killing each other as they grow too large for their cramped quarters.

19.   A national trades union strike in March shut down the country for two days.

20.   A strike would shut down buses, subways and trolleys that are used daily by nearly half a million people.