In several areas of Peru, a transportation strike gained ground.
As the strike gained national attention, labor supporters saw it as a test of black organizing against Jim Crow.
If the idea of a national strike gains support, it will be a sure sign that the protests are more than just a flash in the pan.
Their strike gained publicity when it attracted support from wealthy women active in progressive reform campaigns and in the suffrage movement.
Hundreds of thousands of supporters across the globe voted in the poll, with Rooney's strike gaining 26% of the total votes cast.
As his hunger strike gained international attention, Soltan told me last week, senior officials at Cairo's notorious Tora prison tried to push him to commit suicide.
The strike gained little backing except among public-sector workers and bus and taxi drivers.Hot newsThough the pope had urged his followers to pray for rain, Europe reached record temperatures.
The strike gained the media's attention.
Most of the students who participated were Serbs; the strike gained little support among students of other ethnicities.
The strike gained momentum as images of marching teachers spread, but parents also played a key role as they picketed alongside their children's teachers or had their kids stay home.
