31.   Workers have been known to be beaten, and when strikes are threatened, the instigators are fired.

32.   Yokich has been able to reach deals without even threatening a strike.

33.   Only when the association threatened a strike did it take the issue seriously.

34.   Opposition parties have threatened protest strikes if they determine government has given away too much.

35.   Pilots have threatened a strike if no agreement is reached by the end of the federally mandated cooling-off period.

36.   Other state-run companies also threatened strikes.

37.   Plantation workers threaten strike.

38.   Owners of gasoline stations shut down on the eve of the election to protest low prices, and police threatened a strike to demand higher wages.

39.   Pilots for Alitalia, the national airline, had also threatened a strike in their contract negotiations but canceled the Monday walkout over the weekend.

40.   A major labor group threatened nationwide strikes Monday against what it believes is a government plot to sell a financially troubled carmaker to a third party.