31.   Employees were demanding an increase in benefits.

32.   Government officials and striking farmers resumed negotiations Thursday after farmers demanding price increases for their products suspended roadblocks.

33.   Holiday plans for tourists were also unraveled by the strike, called to demand an increase in pension funds and benefits.

34.   It grew out of nationwide strikes by workers protesting the policies of communist authorities and demanding wage increases.

35.   Judges and judicial workers went on strike Monday, demanding salary increases in line with inflation.

36.   Labor union officials and members of congress promised to step up protests Wednesday, when laborers had already planned to stage a nationwide strike demanding wage increases.

37.   Lengalenga on Monday ordered the government to award the increase after hearing an application lodged by labor leaders demanding increases to meet soaring inflation.

38.   Lisbon commuter lines were the hardest-hit in a one-day strike Monday by rail workers demanding pay increases.

39.   Occupation of government buildings to demand pay increases has become a common practice in Poland.

40.   On Tuesday, tens of thousands of students marched through the streets of Paris and major provincial cities, demanding increases in funding, more space and more professors.