Strikes are very commonplace in Italy - especially transportation strikes.

Activity in cities, towns and refugee camps have been largely frozen as a result of the public transportation strike.

European sales were also weak in December, the company said, in part because of a monthlong transportation strike in France.

A transportation strike is expected to paralyze Paris on Friday.

French workers staged a national transportation strike in 1995 that paralyzed the country for three weeks and forced the Government to back down.

In several areas of Peru, a transportation strike gained ground.

The fourth showed commuters waiting on a train platform during a previous transportation strike.

The violence and a national transportation strike, imposed by the guerrillas, have stranded thousands and separated families.

But he had to back off from his boldest step after a five-week national transportation strike at the end of 1995.

Changes in the weather, transportation strikes, unusually unpleasant news out of Washington or traffic congestion in Pittsburgh may have contributed to the results.