Some Palestinians complain that sporadic strikes and marches get little international attention.

E.I.U., New York's largest health-care union, said they planned to hold sporadic strikes this summer against agencies that fail to reach contracts with the union.

In Armenia, the scene of massive sympathy protests and sporadic strikes, businesses were reported to be working normally, but the mood was said to be tense.

Alitalia has been hit by sporadic strikes that forced it to cancel 1,250 flights in the week through Sunday.

In order to keep away from legal trouble, the Dasi kept away from discussing the movement and did not attend any of the sporadic strikes among the workers.

From March to June 2004, workers were on sporadic strike.

But the public remains ambivalent about the Prime Minister's free-market policies and there are rumblings of union discontent and sporadic strikes.

But sporadic strikes have broken out throughout Italy, troubling Mr. Berlusconi.

Nonetheless, some of them also tried to voice their protest, and even sporadic strikes took place across Russia.

The unions on Thursday endorsed the government's decision to change the board and promised to suspend their sporadic strikes indefinitely.