Though more disruptions are possible this spring, widespread strikes are uncertain.

Students and workers made common cause, and there followed widespread national strikes that threatened the survival of the government.

Last month, widespread strikes followed the latest price increases and food shortages.

This plan has also provoked widespread strikes in France.

The day after his murder saw widespread strikes among the black community in Chattanooga.

Germany's Government is now trying to slow inflation by taking a hard line on public-sector wages, a policy that has produced widespread strikes.

Truck drivers participated in widespread strikes against the rising cost of fuel, during the energy crises of 1973 and 1979.

The country was an economic mess, with widespread strikes and a tangle of political ideas and parties.

The warrants for their arrest were to be issued on 16 June, and widespread strikes became imminent.

It was there that widespread strikes in 1980 forced the Government to sign the last of three agreements establishing the independent Solidarity trade union.