11.   The Cabinet, which usually meets Thursdays, recommended the strikers return to work but that negotiations continue between the contractors and laborers.

12.   The mood at most camps is subdued, with players wondering what will happen to them when the strikers return.

13.   The strikers had returned to work Sunday.

14.   The strikers returned to work after the board agreed, in March, to a new contract giving teachers smaller classes and a substantial raise.

15.   The strikers returned to work without salary increases or the shorter workweek.

16.   Today, though, the strikers returned to the streets.

17.   After that, the strikers would return to their posts.

18.   Although there was no immediate response to the appeal, many strikers later returned to work.

19.   Bank officials expected disruptions to continue unless the strikers returned to work.

20.   Boeing declared an impasse last week and imposed terms of its latest offer Monday, calling on strikers to return, but few did so.