Teachers did follow through with their strike threat despite an offer of 8% increase in salary.

He saw how serious a strike threat was and got a jump on signing players.

It's for communications only: the strike threat is in there.

The strike threat remains, but the board now has considerable leverage.

In later years, though, strike threats became just a stick he would shake at the Government but never actually use.

Mill owners had seen the strike threat as more empty talk from the union.

The strike threat was formidable: there is no way lost production on a newspaper can ever be made up.

That makes the major carriers easy prey to strike threats.

The steelworkers were forced to carry out their strike threat.

The timing of the strike threat before the playoffs would seem to give the players leverage.

The right to organize - and the strike threat - can neutralize the advantage.

Even higher ticket prices do not seem to be an impediment to people who are determined to get away despite the strike threat.

Company officials acknowledge that the strike threat has cost the company business and forced it to lay off some workers.

No doubt he was a sympathizer of the machinists and their strike threat.

A spokeswoman for Ford said the company did not recognize the strike threat as legal and hoped to continue negotiations next week.

Instead of dividing the company, the strike threat helped to define it, for the dancers and Martins.

Company officials say they are taking the strike threat seriously because the two unions involved in the dispute have never been shy about striking.

Today's union power far transcends the earlier kind, largely confined to strike threats at contract negotiating time.

The strike threat came as musicians and transit workers were also seizing on the holiday season to press their causes.

The players have made no strike threats during the negotiations but there is always the possibility of there being one."

Her crowning moment was not shown on television because of a strike threat among pageant electricians.

Even if a 10-day inventory was considered to be insurance against a strike threat, G.M. would still have too many cars on hand, he said.

The strike threat, he added, was costing Amtrak ridership.

The union strike threat gives Ford until 3:30 Friday afternoon to find common ground with the union.

Each will unveil a fully developed fall schedule in May, and try to sell ads for it, regardless of the strike threat.