41.   Workers clashed with riot police who were called in to clear strikers from a factory gate so management and other employees could enter, police said Wednesday.

42.   Workers who were fired from the Itapsa plant also said they were attacked by thugs while handing out leaflets outside the factory gate in December.

43.   Fears for the US economic recovery eased Friday on fresh data showing buoyant consumer sentiment, a strengthening industrial heartland and bulging orders at factory gates.

44.   On arrival at Somain, the Vilvorde workers began to climb fences around the plant, but someone from the plant opened the factory gates for them.

45.   Riot police have three times used force to disperse demonstraters and Sam Rainsy from the factory gates.