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Some workers spent time in local bars drinking. The strike line can be a boring place. Arrests at nearby bars for drinking in public were the only arrests made during the strike but many thought it might turn violent.

Near the end of the strike, union members can feel the company caving in to their demands. A union leader grabs a union worker to participate in a dance onstage during a rally.

During the annual stockholders meeting in Richmond, striking steelworkers rally outside the Jefferson Hotel where company executives were meeting.

Striking shipyard worker Michael Guthrie, of Hampton, a maintenance mechanic at the yard for 20 years, looks over provisions in the tentative agreement outside the Hampton University Convocation Center Friday afternoon. As his co-workers held their…

Mike Hill, a steelworker for 16 years, said he has found ways to cut expenses during the strike. 'It's been tough,' he says. You just have to do without some things. But as time went on many strikers became frustrated with the lack of funds from…

A striking shipbuilder shows a thumbs down to a worker in an upstairs window at the yard during a rally march. Some workers made the decision to cross the gates early in the strike.

Carol Padrick, left, comforts Veronica Hackett, right, as she cries while surveying damage in her Carelton Falls neighborhood in Lee Hall Thursday after hurricane Floyd came through the area. Her home wasn't damaged but neighbors' homes were.

In the summer of 1999 workers at Newport News Shipbuilding, the largest private employer in the state, went on strike over pay and retirement benefits. Unlike earlier strikers, the 1999 strike didn't turn violent. But it did test the patience of…

Chris Garcia, 16, lowers his head while holding onto a canoe inside his Brookside townhome in Denbigh Friday afternoon. He and his mother were flooded out of the home. 'It's hard to think you have Christmas in this house, you have Thanksgiving in…

You almost have to be a Methodist to live in Fox Hill. There are two Methodist churches there and another close by on Fox Hill Road. Wallace Memorial United Methodist Church pastor Rev. Ruth M. Burgess greets parishioners leaving church after a…