Some workers staged brief strikes today as a warning to the Communists.

On March 16, 1920 a brief general strike was organized in Bratislava, to support socialist demands after the elections.

Because the current delivery schedule is still slow, the company can weather a brief strike with little damage, they said.

The railroads are rolling again after last week's brief strike.

Yet, due to the poor state of the economy at the time, fares increased and there was a brief strike in 1976.

And they are still angry about their brief strike two years ago, which was ended when President Clinton ordered them back to work.

August 6 & 7 - All parks go dark for a brief strike.

These cuts triggered protests among teachers and a brief strike in some urban centres.

More than 150 union members among the factory's 1,800 workers were fired after brief strikes over higher wages.

A second brief strike occurred in August 1897, when white workers protested the hiring of 25 black women.