The uncertainty contributed to soaring gasoline prices, which rose 37 cents a gallon in the United States during the three-month strike, according to government figures.

In August 2009 he was again appointed permanent secretary at the Ministry of Education, where he helped end a three-month strike.

The result was a bitter three-month strike.

A bitter three-month strike over a new labor contract then followed.

A three-month strike is beginning to hurt Nynex's bottom line, its executives and analysts say.

Since 1979, when bus drivers staged a three-month strike, most contracts for bus service have been renewed without competitive bidding.

After a three-month strike, the miners were starved back to work and had to accept the lower wages offered to them.

Bus drivers had held a bitter three-month long strike in 1979 when the protections were threatened.

In 1989 he helped coordinate solidarity efforts in Massachusetts during a successful three-month strike by 60,000 telephone workers against health care benefit cost-shifting.

A three-month strike had just ended, and the day shift was in the mine on Monday, September 6, 1869.