31.   That sent several managers scurrying to nearby drug stores to buy supplies, and some municipal workers began bringing their own from home.

32.   That bill, which was given final approval on Friday night, would require the appointment of independent hearing officers to handle serious disciplinary cases involving municipal workers.

33.   The death toll rose to six when New Orleans municipal workers found the body of a child in water flowing toward drainage pumps.

34.   The decline stemmed from a strike by municipal workers in Vancouver, British Columbia, which magnified the overall drop in residential permits.

35.   The mayor used a City Hall budget address on Tuesday to repeat his call for the widespread use of merit pay to motivate teachers and municipal workers.

36.   The police are not the only municipal workers with itchy keyboard fingers.

37.   To keep track of water quality, municipal workers collect dozens of water samples, seven days a week from all five boroughs, for analysis in the lab.

38.   Today, the union organizes nurses, nursing aides, junkyards, municipal workers and cable-television installers.

39.   Tuesday night, FARC commander Byron insisted that municipal workers nationwide must quit.

40.   Unionized municipal workers called the strike after failing to reach an agreement with the government of Mayor Manuel Andres Lopez Obrador.