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FRANCE: STRIKING TRUCK DRIVERS BEGIN TO LIFT BLOCKADES
French/Nat
Striking French truck drivers have begun lifting blockades across France on Friday signalling the end to the 12-day-old strike that's paralysed the country.
Earlier in the day, union leaders and government negotiators signed...
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Airline and union officials on suspension of strike
1. Interior of court room after talks
2. SOUNDBITE: (German) Winfried Streicher, Head of Pilot Union
"A very good labour judge has managed to get us to come to an agreement. The strike will be finished at midnight today. Lufthansa has...
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RUSSIA: MAY DAY DEMONSTRATIONS
Russian/Nat
Russian/Nat
Tens of thousands of trade union members, communists and other hard-line critics of President Yeltsin's government marched Monday in May Day demonstrations in Russia.
The message from the protestors was clear --...
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SOUTH KOREA: DAEWOO MOTOR COMPANY DECLARED BANKRUPT
Korean/Nat
South Korea's third largest car manufacturer, the Daewoo Motor Company, was officially declared bankrupt on Wednesday after its labor union rejected a restructuring plan that calls for layoffs.
Daewoo is the latest victim of...
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WRAP Administrator warns deal needed or airline will fold, voxpops
1. Wide of Alitalia plane taxiing on airport tarmac
2. Plane taking off
3. Tails of Alitalia planes
4. Wide of tarmac with planes
5. Exterior of terminal building
6. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Luca (no last name given), steward at...
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Italian PM Matteo Renzi meets Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi met his Turkish counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu, in Ankara on Thursday to discuss Turkey's path to EU membership and their countries' bilateral relations.
Renzi's visit took place at a time when his...
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Air traffic controllers'' union calls strike in pay dispute, reax
1. Union officials entering news conference
2. Close of media
3. Close of air traffic controllers union symbol
4. SOUNDBITE (German) Matthias Maas, spokesman for air traffic controllers union:
"The air safety union has asked all...
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Huge gathering for May Day marches
1. Wide of union workers and protesters marching slowly
2. Wide of union workers marching with flags
3. Wide of people marching with union leaders
4. Mid of union leaders marching
5. Wide of unions marching with long banners
6. Wide of...
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Striking dockworkers escalate industrial action
1. Various of striking dock workers marching to Cheung Kong Centre
2. Pan from sign, reads: (Chinese and English) "Cheung Kong Centre", to striking dock workers marching
3. Close up of striking dock workers marching, UPSOUND (Cantonese)...
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4:3 Clinton meets Bahraini counterpart Al Khalifa
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had a meeting at the State Department on Wednesday with her counterpart from Bahrain, Foreign Minister Sheik Ahmed bin Hamad Al Khalifa.
Al-Khalifa is in Washington this week for meetings with...
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Teachers protest against austerity measures
1. Various of teachers marching and carrying banners
2. Close of banner reading (English) "I have a dream, Crato (education minister) and Troika, go to hell"
3. Wide of teachers and union leaders marching and carrying a banner reading...
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French prime minister meets unions over job law
AP Television
1. Matignon courtyard
2. Bernard Thibault, head of the powerful CGT union, arriving
3. Francois Chereque, secretary general of the moderate CFDT union, arriving
4. Pan from trade union leaders to French Prime Minister...
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Thousands of workers march to seat of government to demand higher wages
Thousands of union workers and leftist activists marched in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires on Thursday to demand higher wages.
The march coincided with the 12th anniversary of deadly riots that forced former President Fernando de la...
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Nationwide strike over fuel price hike begins
1. Various of closed shops
2. Newspaper headlines, tilt up to person
3. Protest poster
4. Protest poster on car window
5. Various shots of protesters
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Joseph Evah, leader of militants in Niger Delta:
"Any oil...
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Union members protest outside meeting to discuss austerity measures
1. Mid of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti in meeting
2. Wide of round table meeting between Italian government, unions and Employers Association
3. Zoom in to Berlusconi and Tremonti and pan...
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WRAP Truckers agree to end strike, fuel supplies restored
Athens, 1 August, 2010
1. Various of truck drivers gathered outside venue where meeting taking place
2. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Giorgos Tzortzatos, Union spokesperson:
"Taking into consideration the problems that have been created by not...
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RUSSIA: MINERS TO STRIKE OVER PAY
Russian/Nat
Angry Russian miners disillusioned with President's Yeltsin policies are to strike over pay.
Five years ago miners hailed Boris Yeltsin a hero and their vote was seen as being crucial to his election.
The miners' wrath is a...
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Thousands of striking teachers strangle traffic and block access the airport
Thousands of striking teachers strangled traffic and blocked access to Mexico City's international airport on Friday.
They flexed their muscles in a bid to block educational reforms intended to introduce teacher evaluations and reduce...
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PERU: DEMONSTRATORS CLASH WITH POLICE DURING 2ND DAY OF PROTESTS
Spanish/Nat
Peruvian demonstrators clashed with police in Lima on Thursday during a second day of street protests against President Alberto Fujimori's administration.
Around 10-thousand demonstrators took the street marching towards...
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Court convicts two men in murder of union leader
August 1, 2005
1. Accused men arrive at court, Born Samnang (white shirt) and Sok Sam Ouen (blue shirt)
2. Accused men walk to courtroom
3. Onlookers peer into court compound
4. Accused men sit outside court
5. Armed police guards
6....
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Protest against proposed US-SKorean free trade agreement
1. Wide of activists waving banners to protest against South Korean government and South Korea-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in front of Seoul station
2. Mid of activists waving banners in Korean reading: "Abolish discrimination against...
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Police fire rubber bullets at protesting miners as tensions re-ignite
1. Motion shot of police shooting at protesting miners with rubber bullets
2. Mid one of the miners lying on the ground
3. Wide police shooting at miners who run away
4. Wide miner being led away by the police, UPSOUND (Zulu) "I've...
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FRANCE: PUBLIC WORKERS STRIKE SITUATION UPDATE
French/Nat
Parisian residents struggled to get to work and then home again on Wednesday as the two-week-old strike between French public workers and the government continued to bring public transport to a standstill.
There were signs it...
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KAZAKHSTAN: COAL MINING INDUSTRY FACES ECONOMIC RUIN
Russian/Nat
Industrial unrest is growing in former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan.
The country's flagship industry - coal mining - is facing economic ruin in the wake of market reforms.
Nearly one in five of Kazakhstan's pits have been...