The unions, which represent hospital and nursing home employees, and the hospitals waged a yearlong campaign but stepped up their efforts in October with a spate of television ads.

The restaurant said the union was waging a vendetta.

The union waged jurisdictional strikes to claim work that other unions, such as the Machinists, Sheet Metal Workers and Electrical Workers claimed as theirs.

Meanwhile, the union has waged a very public battle against Mayor Booker over school vouchers, and many think the billboard campaign is part of this effort.

For several months the union has waged a sort of guerrilla campaign designed to pressure Mr. Vazquez Rana into yielding to union demands for job security and other concessions.

The union also waged a successful campaign for workers compensation in the fishing industry with a law being passed by the House of Assembly in 1981.

Still, temporary workers became so numerous in Spain over the last several years that unions waged a major campaign to rein in their use.

The union waged an unsuccessful strike against NBC in the summer of 1987.

Meanwhile, the machinists' union, which represents mechanics and other workers at Eastern, has waged a bitter strike against the carrier since March 4, 1989, savored the news of the indictment.

The union waged a bitter 17-year campaign to organize the workers in J. P. Stevens's 10 Southern plants, which ended in a union victory in 1980.