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Transport strike paralyses Berlin and several German airports
1. Wide of street, pan to gate of bus depot
2. Mid shot of gate, banner reading (German) "We're on strike"
3. Close up of poster in bus window reading (German) "This service is on strike"
4. Wide of train and bus drivers standing in...
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UKRAINE: MINERS STAGE MOCK FUNERAL PROCESSION
Natural Sound
Hundreds of Ukrainian miners marched in a mock funeral procession through the capital Kiev on Wednesday to protest against 10 months of unpaid wages and mine closures.
The miners are owed hundreds of millions of U-S...
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SOUTH AFRICA: ORKNEY: GOLD MINE ACCIDENT 56 BODIES RECOVERED
1. Miners outside Orkney mine
2.Various bodies being carried out of mine shaft on stretchers
3. Miners watching
4. C/way photographer
5. Bodies going into ambulance
6. WS Press conference
7. SOUNDBITE: Sam Shilowa, General Secretary...
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Unions plan general strike, mass protest aganst austerity measures
Piraeus
1. Close-up of chain of anchor holding ship at port
2. Wide of ferries
3. Wide of dock
4. Rear view of people sitting on dock, ferries in background
5. Man reading newspaper
6. Wide of people on dock
7. SOUNDBITE: (Greek)...
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VENEZUELA: PUBLIC HOSPITAL DOCTORS JOIN STRIKE
Spanish/Nat
About 11-hundred doctors at public hospitals in Caracas walked off the job on Tuesday but nearly the same number crossed the picket line.
Union officials said several hospitals were forced to shut their emergency rooms and...
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SAFRICA: PUBLIC SECTOR WORKERS - ONE DAY STRIKE
English/Nat
Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers held a one-day strike over wage demands in South Africa on Tuesday.
The strike was the largest to be held in the country since the end of the apartheid regime.
The government...
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FRANCE: POSTAL WORKERS JOIN PUBLIC WORKERS STRIKE
French/Nat
Postal workers at Orly Airport just south of Paris have joined calls for the French government to withdraw plans for social security reforms.
In an indication that the walkout may be spreading, the postal service reported...
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Auto workers are heading back to the job at General Motors. The company and its union came to a new contract agreement.
HEADLINE: GM and UAW come to terms
auto-talks
CAPTION: Auto workers are heading back to the job at General Motors. The company and its union came to a new contract agreement. (Sept. 26)
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THE TWO SIDES...
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Police arrest union leaders, block streets to prevent anti-poverty, anti-gov't march
1. People walking in the main square
2. Traffic wardens directing traffic
3. Street scene
4. Traffic wardens directing traffic
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mlamleli Sibamda, spokesman for the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions:
"We said things...
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Strikes and protests as economic crisis continues
1. Various of workers gathering at Congress
2. Workers beginning to march
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Miguel Masud, pensioner:
"The message today is that we pensioners are annoyed with this government and with the past one. They always...
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Preview of labour strike after govt decision to end fuel subsidies
1. Wide of motorists queueing up on street to fill up with petrol at petrol station; pan to petrol forecourt
2. Mid of motorbikes fuelling up at petrol station
3. Close of prices and litres at petrol station
4. Mid of drivers leaving...
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Juncker meets EU union leaders for talks on austerity cuts
1. Mid of Bernadette Segol, General Secretary of European Confederation of Trade Unions, Jean-Claude Reding, Head of Luxembourg Trade Union and Ignacio Toxo, President of European Confederation of Trade Unions arriving
2. Mid of...
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Flight Attendants Union of Cathay Pacific to take industrial action over pay dispute
1. Wide of flight attendants of Cathay Pacific Airways chanting slogan in a meeting UPSOUND (English) "Fair pay, Fair deal"
2. Close of placard reading "Low Pay rise, Low Morale"
3. Low of flight attendants holding placards aloft and...
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BELGIUM: FUEL PRICES PROTESTS LATEST
Eng/French/Nat
Belgium is once again at a standstill as truckers continue their protests against high fuel prices.
Union leaders resumed negotiations at the Belgian Transport Ministry in the morning.
The country's largest two Dutch and...
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Tens of thousands protest for jobs and measures to safeguard workers
1. Protesters passing by camera, marching with union flags
2. Susanna Camusso, union leader of Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL), arriving
3. Camusso hugging protesters and posing for cameras
4. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Susanna...
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SOUTH KOREA: WORKERS STAGE ANTI GOVERNMENT RALLY AT SEOUL STATION
Korean/Nat
Subway workers went back to work Monday in South Korea, but car and shipbuilding plants continued their protest on the fifth day of widespread labour strikes.
Nurses and other unionised workers at 14 major hospitals in the...
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Minister hopeful of end to strike after talks between mining union and platinum producers
South Africa's Minister of Mineral Resources on Tuesday said he was hopeful that talks between mining unions and platinum producers could lead to the end of an almost five-month long strike by platinum workers.
"I strongly believe we...
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Teachers' strike blocking motorway
1. Wide shot, pan left to right of teachers from the National Coordination of Education Workers (CNTE) blocking tollbooths
2. Mid shot of Federal Prevention Police (PFP) force arriving at blockade
3. Wide shot of teachers from the...
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French hospital workers protest job cuts; Romania demo, Spain demo, more Romania
Paris, France
1. Mid side-shot of hospital workers marching with banner showing photo of health minister Roselyne Bachelot banner reads: (French) "Bachelot is a swine flu epidemic to public hospitals"
2. Various of protest march
3....
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Workers continue strike, reax from teacher joining stoppage
1. Wide top shot of hospital workers protesting
2. Close of protest sign, reading "It's look like Zuma has forgot about us. (sic)"
3. Wide of protesters singing, zoom into sign reads "Public Service Strike, we demand 8.6%."
4. Mid of...
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LEBANON: GOVERNMENT ORDER ARMY TO BREAK PLANNED UNION STRIKE
Arabic/Nat
The Lebanese government has ordered the army to break a planned strike by unions, protesting about soaring living costs.
The order was announced by Prime Minister Rafik Hariri after a four- hour cabinet meeting.
The Federation...
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Volkswagen workers go on strike over wages
1. Zoom out from mid flags at main entrance of Volkswagen plant in Puebla state
2. Wide red and black flag
3. Workers outside Volkswagen plant entrance
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Luis Rodriguez, Union Leader
"The show(strike) is to...
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: PROTESTS OVER GOVERNMENTS AUSTERITY MEASURES
Spanish/Nat
Government austerity measures have prompted protests in the Dominican Republic.
President Leonel Fernandez' decision to devalue the peso and raise petrol prices has sent the cost of basic goods soaring.
Protestors have...
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Air France pilots continue to strike
Air France pilots continued to strike on Tuesday despite the company's CEO questioning the reasons for the ongoing action.
Air France pilots are rejecting the company's offer to delay the expansion of its low-cost carrier, Transavia, but...