61.   The workers are demanding pay increases, and say more staff should be hired.

62.   Thousands of teachers, hospital workers and police took to the streets across France Tuesday to demand pay increases, closing some schools and disrupting public services.

63.   They are demanding an increase to their very low wages.

64.   Unions are demanding an increase on the current work regime of one-and-a-half days time-off per week for their members.

65.   Warning signs began earlier this month, with strikes by factory workers demanding increases in salaries, which had been frozen since November.

66.   In Madrid, the industrial action coincided with a strike by staff on the city bus service who were demanding an increase in pay.

67.   In the post office and at France-Telecom, workers are defending their civil service status and demanding increases in staff.

68.   Across town, the activist group ACT UP will hold a protest outside the White House to demand an increase in funding for AIDS research.

69.   But the Foreign Ministry is expected to demand an increase of at least four percent, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said.

70.   The pilots are demanding an increase in pay and have accused Alitalia of seeking to dismantle the company by sub-contracting work to foreign companies.