Sentence examples for announced strikes from inspiring English sources

(AP) THE AMERICAS CHILE: STRIKES TO BACK WAGE DEMANDS -- Union leaders representing 400,000 workers announced strikes and other actions to back their demands for a 4.6percentt wage increase.

Air France pilots, who are acknowledged as well paid, announced strikes for this week over general pay and conditions.

But unless the song's hero was playing in Japan, where the ball-strike count was announced strikes first until 2010, he would have been making his way back to the dugout, having struck out, rather than rounding third base, as Mr. Berry's lyric has it.

Militant communists, capable of mobilising thousands on to the streets, and unions representing civil servants, the mainstay of the Greek workforce, have already announced strikes for later this week, attacking the prospect of yet more austerity with extreme vitriol and vehemence.

Major unions have announced strikes protesting police violence.

Monday will not be business as usual: major unions have announced strikes protesting police violence.

It is now run by Virgin Trains and, on Friday morning, staff announced strike action over two weekends in August.

Taxi drivers, doctors and rubbish collectors have announced strike plans, signalling a new round of anti-austerity protests by unions and professional groups in the crisis-hit country.

The party chief of Xinjiang, Zhang Chunxian, has, like his predecessor, adopted an iron-fist strategy since taking office in 2010 and has announced "strike hard" campaigns in Uighur areas.

The BBC's coverage of chancellor George Osborne's spending review on 20 October faces disruption after broadcasting unions today announced strike dates in their dispute over pension scheme changes.

The spectacle of Brazil's business capital's being paralyzed by a single, previously announced strike prompted a new round of anger at the government's failure to invest in infrastructure and renewed concerns over possible breakdowns in road, airport and communications systems when Brazil hosts the soccer World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016.