A tentative contract agreement was reached late Tuesday between Rutgers University and representatives of 2,800 nonteaching employees, ending a nine-day strike, spokesmen for the two sides said.

In 1989, as union vice president, Ms. Bernstein helped negotiate a settlement ending a nine-day strike that gave teachers a 24 percent raise over three years.

The company will substitute managementj personnel for operators and other workers, as it did three years ago during a nine-day strike.

A nine-day strike at G.M's stamping plant in Lordstown, Ohio, last month quickly idled 10 assembly plants with 26,000 workers.

The nine-day strike was widely regarded as a harbinger of next year's negotiations between General Motors and the auto workers union.

In September 2012, CPS teachers went on a nine-day strike, walking off the job for the first time in 25 years.

But last year, in 1998, as head of the Workers' Congress, he oversaw a nine-day strike, for higher pay, by half a million workers on tea and rubber plantations.

Fraser led a nine-day strike against Chrysler which began on September 14, 1973, the first against the automaker in decades.

Most of those loopholes were closed last fall after those affected were promised higher pay to end a nine-day strike.

The nine-day strike at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, ended with a solution that was a face-saving compromise for both sides.