1.   A little over a dozen toteboard maintenance workers went on strike against Autotote as part of a nationwide walkout that began on Friday.

2.   Rail workers on Friday rejected a compromise hammered out by the government and labor leaders, and extended their nationwide walkout for a fifth day.

3.   Polish anesthesiologists, striking since Friday for better pay and working conditions, appealed to the government on Wednesday to open talks that could end their nationwide walkout.

4.   A year later, telephone workers called a nationwide walkout and Williams became active in the union.

5.   Federation leader Mikhail Shmakov said local unions would lay the groundwork for a nationwide walkout with a campaign of hunger strikes and other protests.

6.   He said the union would respond with a nationwide walkout if the employers closed some factories in lockouts.

7.   He said the union would respond the next day with a nationwide walkout if the employers closed some factories in lockouts.

8.   In their crusade against belt-tightening cuts, rail workers are the engine of a nationwide walkout that has mobilized postal, utility and other public workers.

9.   It was the first strike since union leaders decided to temporarily end nationwide walkouts last Saturday.

10.   It was the first strike since union leaders temporarily ended nationwide walkouts last Saturday.