1.   Factory workers threatened strikes.

2.   The union threatened a strike but called it off at the last minute.

3.   Workers in several regions had threatened strikes because of non-payment of wages.

4.   Farmers in one of the most important regions are threatening a strike unless Mr Gorbachov meets their demands for higher prices.

5.   Already, labor unions are threatening strikes if the law is changed to make it easier to dismiss workers.

6.   An indefinite strike has been threatened.

7.   And oil workers are threatening a strike next week unless the energy minister Galo Abril is dismissed.

8.   At the same time, his NFL counterparts were stalled, threatening strike.

9.   Bassuener also fears that unarmed observers on the ground in Kosovo might be used as human shields by Serbs should NATO threaten future strikes.

10.   Auto strikes once were threatened every few years, when the national contract was expiring.