The Tube has a reputation for being strike-prone.
But one of the company's strike-prone unions may spoil the party.
In the 70's and early 80's, Longbridge's strike-prone labor unions kept staff levels around 25,000.
Power cuts and strike-prone car unions have made it harder for car-component makers there to compete with a wave of cheap Chinese imports.
He considers it his duty to prod the poor to find jobs and to battle strike-prone unions that he says are dragging down the economy.
Each of the three is doing just that, trying, in a strike-prone country, to lay off buildings and kit rather than people.Which of the three is most vulnerable to France and its woes?
(His colleague, the eminent economic historian Nicholas Crafts, while equally dismissive of some of the things Mrs. Thatcher was doing, was also of the view that a strike-prone and inefficient industrial sector needed shock therapy).
But Greece's strike-prone workers, among them taxi drivers protesting against plans to open up their trade, seem determined to put visitors off.Just before the break José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain's prime minister, called early general elections for November.
Toward the end of the Depression, in the late 1930s, a sociologist named Alfred Winslow Jones conducted field research around the violently strike-prone factories of Akron, Ohio, expecting that bitter industrial conflict might have created equally bitter class divisions.
Mr. Papandreou must walk a fine line between making good on his promise to Brussels that Greece can rein in its public spending and reassuring Greece's strike-prone public sector workers that he will not cut their salaries.
In addition to its financial troubles, the Italian carrier is saddled with a fleet of aging, fuel-guzzling aircraft and a bloated, strike-prone work force of 11,000.
