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SOUTH KOREA: STRIKING WORKERS STAGE PROTEST AGAINST LAYOFFS
Korean/Nat
Thousands of workers in South Korea are holding a nationwide strike to protest against planned layoffs being made to help the country's economy recover from Asia's financial crisis.
Companies say cut backs are needed in...
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President Barack Obama is rallying union workers by painting a bleak portrait of America's infrastructure. In a speech to the AFL-CIO, he blamed Republicans for focusing on tax cuts rather than rebuilding infrastructure and creating jobs.
HEADLINE: Obama Speaks to Unions, Blasts GOP
CAPTION: President Barack Obama is rallying union workers by painting a bleak portrait of America's infrastructure. In a speech to the AFL-CIO, he blamed Republicans for focusing on tax cuts...
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WRAP Anti-Bush protest; ADDS US President meets children
Santa Cruz Balanya, Guatemala
1. United States presidential helicopter Marine 1 landing
2. Children waiting holding Guatemalan and US flags
3. Guatemalan President Oscar Berger, US President George Bush and first ladies getting out of...
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WRAP Flights cancelled as Lufthansa pilots strike, union, reax; ADDS rally
1. Various interior shots of Frankfurt airport terminal
2. SOUNDBITE (German) Alexander Gerhard Madjidi, Pilots'' Union spokesman:
"We announced this strike a week early to give Lufthansa the chance to come to terms with us and to give...
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Tens of thousands protest government''s economic policies
1. Various of security forces deploying for demonstration
2. Demonstrators holding placards
3. Close-up of banners
4. Wide top shot of demonstration
5. Various of demonstration
6. Demonstrators shouting
7. Various of demonstration
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May Day rallies by government supporters and opposition
1. Wide of workers, opposition supporters, marching, AUDIO: music
2. Mid of people marching
3. Mid of people waving Venezuelan flags and yellow flags representing the opposition
4. Mid of people marching and man carrying poster, reading:...
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Italian civil servants strike; German markets react to debt deal, China
Rome, Italy
1. Wide of civil servants waving flags of the Italian Labour Union (UIL), one of the three main national trade unions gathered in the central Piazza Santi Apostoli
2. Close up of flags
3. Medium of protesters
4. SOUNDBITE...
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WRAP Morales calls off hunger strike ADDS decree signing, celebrations
1. Exterior of Congress
2. Various of lawmakers voting
3. Back shot of lawmaker going over papers detailing proposed legislation
4. Various wide shots of interior of Congress
5. Exterior of presidential palace
6. Bolivian President Evo...
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Demonstrators from trade unions and civil society groups protest Obama's visit
1. Wide of protester outside Cape Town's Parliament building holding placard reading (English): "Obama link to Israel"
2. Pan of protester holding placard reading (English): "Obama mass killer"
3. Pan of group of protesters holding...
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Cabin crew pay strike disrupts flights in and out of Germany's financial hub
Lufthansa flight attendants escalated their bitter pay dispute on Tuesday, going out on strike at three German airports - including the two biggest, Frankfurt and Munich - in a showdown with an airline determined to bring down...
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Thousands attend demonstrations over retirement bill
Marseille
1. Wide of protesters gathering at the Old Port with ferry, boats and tourist train in background
2. Various of protesters at port with banners and flags
3. Protesters with red CGT union (Confederation of General Labour...
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Greeks rally against education and austerity reforms
1. Wide of protesters, with a large banner reading "No pasaran", a famous phrase often used in wartime when defending a position, meaning "they shall not pass."
2. Close of the banner
3. Various of protesters marching, chanting
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Petrol stations start to run out of petrol in Marseille
Marseille area
1. Various of petrol station on motorway with motorists filling up cars
2. Close-up of sign on unleaded petrol pumps reading (French) "SP 98 and SP 95 unavailable", pan to motorists filling up car
3. SOUNDBITE (French)...
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FRANCE: STRIKING TRUCK DRIVERS BEGIN BUILDING BLOCKADES
Eng/French/Nat
Striking truck drivers were setting up blockades all over France on Sunday night.
Truck company owners rejected a tentative accord on salary issues, prompting the main truckers' union, Force Ouvriere to officially call the...
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Thousands march through Madrid to protest against austerity measures
1. Wide pan of protest, people gathering on Northern column
2. Wide of protesters waving union flags
3. Side shot of protesters walking
4. Wide of head of march, banner reading (Spanish): "To protect our future - Let's go!"
5. Medium of...
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Preview as public sector workers prep to strike over austerity measures
1. Wide exterior of the headquarters of the public sector union Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) (translates as the Workers' Commission)
2. Interior shot of CCOO Secretary General, Juan Antonio Olmos, walking through office carrying banners
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Teachers and transport workers strike in government protest
1. Wide of La Paz street
2. Various of residents walking on the streets and riding bicycles
3. Image of the Virgin Mary
4. Students entering school
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Jose Luis Alvarez, teacher's union:
"We are accusing the...
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Trade unions organise flash mob at Colosseum ahead of general strike
Italian trade unions organised a flash mob at Rome's Colosseum on Friday, in preparation for a general strike against government austerity measures scheduled for 18 October.
A few trade unionists entered the Colosseum and hung banners on...
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Latest on the ongoing crisis in Honduras
1. Supporter of ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya holding banner reading (Spanish) "24 of July, Mel (ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya) will be back. Out with Micheletti, traitor, and all his pro coup clique."
2. Close up...
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Unions block streets as nationwide petrol strike begins
1. Various of labour protest in Ojoga Park, just outside Lagos
2. Close of protest banner reading (English) "This is our stand. Remove corruption not subsidy."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ken Olalekan, 31, self-employed businessman:
"Starting...
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A multiracial group of police officers stood with the white officer who arrested a black Harvard scholar and asked President Barack Obama and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick apologize for comments union leaders called insulting
HEADLINE: Mass. police unions ask Obama for apology
CAPTION: A multiracial group of police officers stood with the white officer who arrested a black Harvard scholar and asked President Barack Obama and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick...
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Philippines - Airline strike enters second day
The Philippine Airlines (PAL) ground crew strike entered its second day on Thursday (23/7) with management expressing confidence that earlier fears the stoppage could topple the ailing airline would not materialise. PAL said its 28...
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RUSSIA: COMMUNIST DEMONSTRATORS HOLD MAY DAY PROTEST
Russian/Nat
Communist sympathisers and Russia's trade unions took to the streets on Friday to celebrate the May Day holiday in two separate Moscow demonstrations.
More than 23-thousand people marched down Moscow's central streets to...
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Commuters suffer as eight hour general strike gets under way
1. Wide shot passengers checking flight information boards at Rome''s Fiumicino airport
2. Close pan of flight information screen showing cancelled flights
3. Mid of passenger checking timetable
4. Screen showing cancelled flights
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