11.   The workers were protesting a recent increase in gasoline prices.

12.   The workers are protesting a plan to cut costs by paying new employees less.

13.   The workers were protesting plans to privatize the company.

14.   Unemployment is climbing, and workers are protesting that they must bear the brunt.

15.   Workers are also protesting government proposals to reform pensions.

16.   Workers are protesting, but they know the yard is doomed.

17.   Workers were protesting work conditions for outside staff, said company officials.

18.   Workers had protested such plans, saying they could lead to massive unemployment.

19.   Workers have angrily protested layoffs, pay cuts and severance terms seen as more generous for some overseas employees than for those at home.

20.   A local government labor official denied that a clash had occurred but confirmed that workers had protested for a few hours after the factory declared bankruptcy Saturday.