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REPLAY Workers strike at hotel ready to host US delegation on French leg of Obama tour
1. Wide of exterior of Westin hotel
2. Hotel guests walking through lobby, pan to banner reading (English) "Staff on strike"
3. Hotel staff banging drums and dancing
4. Two female hotel staff banging makeshift drums
5. Close-up of man...
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More than 10 thousand union members in anti-government protest
1. Wide pan of protesters at rally
2. Mid shot of protesters clapping together protest paddles
3. Close up of a protester raising fist
4. Pan of rally
5. Mid shot protesters singing protest song
6. Pan of protesters singing
7. Mid shot...
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FRANCE: UNION LEADERS THREATEN TO WIDEN TRUCK DRIVERS STRIKE
Eng/Fr/German
Union leaders in France have threatened to widen the 8-day-old truck drivers' strike to rail and air transport if negotiations failed to reach a result Monday night.
The warning came as drivers continued to block...
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MEXICO: POLITICIAN FIDEL VELAZQUEZ DIES AGED 97
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One of the biggest figures in Mexican politics has died at the age of 97.
Fidel Velazquez, leader of the powerful Confederation of Mexican Workers, died at 1420 GMT in a Mexico City hospital.
Velazquez the oldest leader,...
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Berlusconi meets unions, employers on debt plan, analyst
Rome
1. Mid of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and Italian economy minister Giulio Tremonti next to him (third right) in meeting room
2. Wide of CISL (Italian Confederation of Workers'' Trade Unions) secretary-general, Raffaele...
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Europe - 20,000 join massive occupt demo in Germany / Protesters clash with police near parliament in Italy / Tens of thousands take part in anti-austerity rally in Portugal / Thousands protest against bank bailouts in Spain / Police driven back by miners using homemade rockets in Spain / Moody's cuts debt rating of 28 Spanish banks
1. 1. Zoom out from close-up of riot police to wide of march
2. Protesters attempting to push through police lines to reach the Parliament and the Premier's office, riot police pushing back using shields and batons
3. Wide of smoke from...
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Greenpeace protest at French embassy over conrtoversial warship
1. Greenpeace activists getting off a truck
2. Activists unloading trolleys full of garbage bags
3. Close-up of garbage bags, tilt up to activists on the truck
4. Activists unloading the dump, tilt up to activists in truck unfurling a...
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Military, police and unions protest against austerity wage cuts
Police, firefighters, union workers and supporters took to the streets of Thessaloniki on Saturday to protest the Greek government's latest round of austerity cuts.
Greece is struggling to meet budget commitments needed for continued...
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Ford vehicle set alight outside factory in protest at closure
Genk
1. Mid of burning Ford car surrounded by Ford workers in front of Ford factory
2. Close of workers talking (shot through burning car window)
3. Mid of workers
4. Zoom out from close of Ford sign to wide of workers passing by...
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Huge union protest in France over working hours
Members of France's General Confederation of Labour (CGT) marched through the streets of Paris on Wednesday demanding French President Francois Hollande's abandon plans to tamper with the country's 35-hour working week to create new...
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Latest public transport strike hits capital, protesters occupy state power company
1. Wide of power company building under occupation by employees to prevent electricity bills from being issued that include a new property tax; black banner reads (Greek) "Occupation"; pans down to show protesters from the "I won't pay"...
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Public sector workers stage 24 hour strike over cuts
1. Wide of Rome train station car park
2. Various of people waiting for a bus
3. Sign on bus reading (Italian) 'Termini station'
4. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Vox Pop, Cristina, no last name given, commuter:
"It's not fair because we have...
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Demo against planned French labour reforms
Hundreds of trade unionists and young people gathered in Paris on Satueday to ask the government to modify planned labour reforms.The CFDT (French Confederation of Christian Workers) and other moderate trade unions and the youth movement...
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SYND 20 10 67 COMMENTS FROM POLITICAL LEADERS ON STRIKES HITTING THE COUNTRY
Minister of Labour, Ray Gunter, trade union leaders, Frank Cousins, and Communist Party Secretary John Gollan comment on trade union troubles which threaten to cripple British economy.
1. SOUNDBITE: (English) cu interior Gunter speaking...
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Thousands of teachers strike in Romania
Thousands of Romanian teachers demonstrated outside the Romanian government's main offices in Bucharest on Wednesday before marching through the capital to demand higher salaries.Dressed in yellow tee-shirts, blue and red caps, teachers...
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Labour reform demo blocks roads to Marseille
Workers union protesters blocked roads near Marseille on Thursday morning, in protest against labour reforms in France.French truckers have been protesting against lower payment for extra hours, which is being introduced through new...
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High Copper or Lead in 19 Detroit Schools' Water
Detroit Public Schools officials say elevated lead or copper levels have been found in the water in 19 schools amid ongoing testing at schools around the country in response to the crisis in nearby Flint.The Detroit district began...
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Union rallies in Athens as strike under way
Several thousand people, including Communist party union members, held peaceful demonstrations in central Athens on Friday, amid a growing discontent with the left-led coalition government, which was only re-elected last...
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Sudanese tea seller receives courage award from John Kerry
LEAD INA woman from Sudan has been honoured in Washington as one of the ten most courageous women in the world.Awadiya Mahmoud Koko received the International Women of Courage award for her work as an activist for female...
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Granite and marble businesses complain of Chinese competition
LEAD IN:Marble and granite businesses in parts of Egypt are complaining that Chinese companies are taking over their traditional trade. One investor says Egyptian owned companies are struggling to compete because the technology the...
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French strike may disrupt Euro 2016
The largest French railway union has threatened to call for an "extendable strike" on the first day of the Euro 2016 if the government fails to meet their demands. Seven different railway unions, including the CGT, called on their...
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FARC: Colombia must deal with paramilitaries
Colombia's largest guerrilla group said on Wednesday no peace deal would be signed with the government as long as "criminal shock troops prepare and celebrate in advance a new bloodbath." The issue of right-wing paramilitaries and...
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Group of Flint Residents Condemns Trump’s Visit
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST:AP TELEVISION – AP CLIENTS ONLYFlint, Michigan – 14 September 20161. Various of anti-Trump protesters holding up a "wall" made of used water bottles at the site of a news conference...
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United Mine Workers Rally on Capitol Hill
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST:AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ON LYWashington, DC - 8 September 20161. Wide of rally with US Capitol in the background2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Cecil Roberts, President, United Mine Workers of...