21.   Airline pilots, bus drivers and factory and hotel workers came away with nothing after brief warning strikes last Friday.

22.   Also Sunday, postal workers announced they would launch a series of warning strikes beginning on Tuesday.

23.   Another big wave of warning strikes was planned for next week.

24.   But airline pilots, bus drivers and factory and hotel workers came away with nothing after brief warning strikes.

25.   But he said warning strikes that began Tuesday in Baden-Wuerttemberg state and continued Wednesday would proceed for the next few days as planned.

26.   But the IG Metall metalworkers union said warning strikes would continue next week in support of its negotiating demands.

27.   But the warning strike went mostly unnoticed in the capital, where services, such as transportation, were unaffected.

28.   Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder won a pledge from industry Thursday to continue talks with unions on job creation that were endangered by a wave of warning strikes.

29.   Chubais also said Tuesday that the government had succeeded in settling a dispute with coal miners, who staged a nationwide warning strike earlier this month.

30.   Doctors staged a one-hour warning strike Tuesday in Belgrade, demanding higher pay.