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The action then progressed to a series of rolling strikes.

Next week, the country's biggest electric power company will begin rolling strikes.

The "rolling strike" involved targeting selected state agencies with temporary strikes, then going back to work and striking others.

Members of four unions have already voted to carry out rolling strikes, including a co-ordinated strike on 30 November.

So Russia's medical workers have begun a sort of rolling strike, cutting off non-emergency treatment in many hospitals and clinics.

A union spokesman, Bentley Gilbert, said a rolling strike has been used in other disputes around the country.

It means there could be rolling strike action across the public sector in the autumn, which could profoundly disrupt the work of the state.

"I think it had some impact, but the strike was too short to really be able to know how effective a rolling strike can be.

The workers were locked out on July 12 after announcing rolling strikes were to start following the breakdown of employment agreement negotiations.

They have threatened to carry out rolling strikes and boycott the marking of students' work unless employers make the changes they demand.

In bowling, a perfect score, achieved by rolling strikes in all ten frames (a total of twelve strikes).

Unions are warning that rolling strikes could go on until next summer, suggesting that the Queen's jubilee and the 2012 Olympics could be targets.

"The way a rolling strike would hurt is by impacting essential services such as the psychiatric hospitals," said Fred Miller, director of the state Executive Department.

Criticism of the trigger agreements was quickly snuffed out after the SEIU won a rolling strike for healthcare benefits in 2000.

Starting November 3 in 1986, Amador Valley teachers went on a rolling strike to "protest a breakdown in negotiations for a new contract."

All-out strikes gave way to 'spot strikes', 'rolling strikes' and 'go slows'.

State workers ended their 10-week rolling strike, saying they had achieved most of their objectives in the newly passed budget that Gov. Gary Locke is expected to sign.

"There will be rolling strikes as warranted," said Jennifer Cunningham, executive director of the S.E.I.U. New York State Council.

Launched over a salary dispute, the rolling strikes on the subway, city and intercity bus and suburban train networks start Wednesday and are scheduled to continue until June 10.

Union members in western Baden-Württemberg and eastern Berlin-Brandenburg voted for the strike last week, but so far the one-day rolling strikes have been only in the West.

Talking of rolling strikes, the closing of roads, cinemas, theaters, shops and schools, Mr. Korac said: "We know it's a high-risk game, but we know we have no alternative.

The ATL, NUT and UCU backed a series of rolling strikes in the summer and took part in an earlier walk-out in June.

His biggest showdown with unions came in February 1985 when electrical workers, opposing the increasing use of contract labour in their industry, started a series of rolling strikes that led to two weeks of blackouts.

They, along with compositors, paper makers, wool sorters and colliers, had developed the rolling strike, or strike in detail, whereby shops were turned out one at a time with those in work supporting those who were withdrawn.

It was also announced that these would be all out strikes with everybody walking out at the same time rather than the rolling strike action that had been adopted previously, thus leading to a complete stoppage throughout the course of the action.