1.   Since nearly all passenger trains included Pullmans, a nationwide strike resulted.

2.   Workers held nationwide strikes and demonstrations all over Spain.

3.   The latest anti-government protests came amidst a growing political crisis within the FLN and nationwide strikes over rising prices and unemployment.

4.   A nationwide strike by medical workers beginning in April intensified during May and achieved backing from the Federation of Independent Trade Unions.

5.   The National Union of Teachers has voted for possible nationwide strikes in protest at the planned introduction of performance-related pay.

6.   Anger about government proposals to reduce welfare spending led to nationwide strikes and riots that paralysed France for three and a half weeks beginning in late November.

7.   Automobile exports are likely to become the biggest victim of the nationwide strikes as most production lines of major car manufacturers have shut down.

8.   -- Margret Moenig Raane, German retail union chief about nationwide strikes by retail workers that began today.

9.   A nationwide strike in April also failed to reduce exports.

10.   A nationwide strike by bullfighters on Sunday forced the cancellation of the first event of the main season.