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Hezbollah blocks roads to enforce labour strike
1. Various of Lebanese army Armoured Personnel Carriers (APC) driving through burning tyres
2. Wide of burning tyres blocking road
3. Tilt down from plume of smoke to burning tyres
4. Wide of airport road leading to airport with APCs...
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Trade Unions demonstrate against proposed new European Treaty
1. Wide of Brussels street with trade unionists gathered with banners, flags and balloons
2. Close-up large balloon
3. Close-up of flags and demonstrators
4. Wide of demonstrators holding a banner
5. SOUNDBITE: (French) Anne Demelenne,...
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Striking Hollywood writers look at proposed labour deal
APTN New York February 9 2008
1. Tilt down of entrance to Crowne Plaza Hotel
2. Wide of news conference
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael Winship, Writers Guild of America East President:
"The general sense of it is that we are pretty...
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ZIMBABWE: HARARE: RIOT POLICE CLASH WITH TRADE UNION MEMBERS
Natural Sound
A call by Zimbabwe's Congress of Trades Unions for a two-day nationwide general strike drew little initial support Tuesday, except in the already stricken health sector.
Shops, banks, offices and factories appeared...
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MEXICO: FIDEL VELAZQUEZ'S FOLLOWERS MOURN HIS DEATH
Spanish/Nat
Fidel Velazquez, the ironhanded labour patriarch who dominated Mexico's union movement since the late 1930s and helped keep the ruling party in power, died on Saturday at the ripe old age of 97.
Dozens of followers gathered...
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France - Strike Comtinues
The French government said on Saturday (9/12) it was ready to negotiate an end to the crippling public workers' strike. Labour Minister Jacques Barrot met union chiefs whose walkout has stripped France of public transportation and other...
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European steel workers protest EU emissions cuts
1. Wide of European steel workers marching towards European Union headquarters
2. Protesters marching and holding banner reading: (English) "Safeguard jobs in the European steel and metal industries for a sustainable future for all"
3....
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FRANCE: FUEL BLOCKADES: CRISIS TALKS
French/Nat
Union leaders talked until the early hours of Thursday morning in Paris attempting to hammer out an agreement with the government which would bring an end to the strikes and blockades which have crippled the country over...
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WRAP Hollywood writers look at proposed deal, Moore reax, LA
Los Angeles - 9 October 2008
1. Wide of picketing at Paramount lot
2. Medium shot of picketers at Paramount
3. Wide tilt down of Shrine Auditorium
5. Wide of writers walking to Shrine
6. SOUNDBITE (English): Dan Milano, Writers Guild...
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Ford workers protest as Ford & Firestone argue over deaths.
1. Ford Explorers being driven by United Auto Workers members in support of the company
2. Pan of car as workers shout at passers by
3. Close-up of cars, Capitol building in background
4. Close-up of cars and women holding sign
5....
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WRAP Transport strikes hit capital, buses, trains ADDS Trade Union comment
1. Wide of bus arriving at Rome's central bus station
2. Bus with destination reading (Italian) "depot"
3. Wide of people standing at bus stop
4. Various of buses with destination reading (Italian): "depot"
5. SOUNDBITE: (Italian)...
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SYND 13 11 74 RABIN ADDRESSES TRADE UNION LEADERS
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin addressing a meeting of union leaders and then fights starting.
SOUNDBITE: Hebrew
1. mcu Rabin speaks
2. ms union leaders argue
3. mcu Rabin lights a cigarette
4. ms chairman speaks
5. ms fights...
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Hundreds of thousands rally for May Day
1. Wide shot Communist Party demonstrators approaching
2. Mid shot red flags and Stalin portrait
3. Mid shot demonstrators with large red flag passing over camera chanting
4. Wide shot demonstrators passing Kremlin
5. Wide shot...
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WRAP Demonstration starts, tension and scuffles
1. Various of demonstrators starting to march from Place d'Italie with balloons and union banners, to protest at the CPE (Contrat Premier Embauche, the new youth employment contract)
2. Various of demonstrators holding anti-CPE banners...
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GERMANY: THOUSANDS OF WORKERS STRIKE OVER CUTS TO SICK PAY
German/Nat
Thousands of autoworkers, shipbuilders and others in the metalworking industry walked off their jobs across Germany Thursday in protest over cuts to sick pay.
I-G Metall, Germany's largest union, called for the protests...
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GERMANY: EU & US SPECIAL ENVOYS TO KOSOVO VISIT
Eng/Ger/Nat
The E-U's special envoy to Kosovo and his United States counterpart joined the German foreign minister for an informal meeting in Bonn.
Both are on their way to Paris for the Rambouillet negotiations over the crisis in...
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Demonstrators from an agricultural workers' union rallied in Mexico City on Friday, some driving tractors, to demand answers from authorities over the disappearance of 43 college students in the state of Guerrero more than two months ago.
Demonstrators from an agricultural workers' union rallied in Mexico City on Friday, some driving tractors, to demand answers from authorities over the disappearance of 43 college students in the state of Guerrero more than two months...
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Opposition leaders call for Yanukovych Hague trial, memorial for slain at Maidan square
Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday approved a resolution initiating the process of sending president Viktor Yanukovych for trial at The Hague tribunal.
Oleh Tyahnybok, head of the nationalist Svoboda party, which has been a strong force in...
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General strike starts against austerity; protest in Madrid
1. Mid of march by UGT (General Workers Union) and CCOO (Comisiones Obreras), protesters chanting as they walk along street
2. Mid of demonstrators passing with flags and banners
3. Close up of poster reading (Spanish) "Thank you for my...
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SYND 1 11 78 GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL ANNOUNCING TRADE UNION ELECTIONS
A Chilean government official Deputy Minister Of Labour Raul Ventura announced details of trade union elections, the first in the country since the military junta that brought General Pinochet to power five years ago. The seamen's union...
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May Day demos in Turkey, Greece, Germany
Athens, Greece
1. Wide of demonstrators gathered outside Greek Parliament
2. Police chasing demonstrators
3. Demonstrators march towards police holding banner and clash with each other
4. Top of protesters throwing a Molitov cocktail at...
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Student union presser following latest protests on jobs law
1. Wide exterior of Force Ouvriere (Workers'' Force) trade union building with banner on faÄżËade reading ''withdrawal of the CPE'' (First Job Contract)
2. Wide of news conference
3. Bruno Julliard, head of UNEF (National Union of...
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Paramedics say emergency services suffering from austerity cutbacks
1. Paramedics walking towards ambulance in emergency services headquarters, they enter ambulance and drive off
2. Low angle shot of ambulance leaving emergency services parking; UPSOUND of siren
3. Moving shot from inside ambulance...
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Interim military leader meets with union officials and political figures
Burkina Faso's military appointed transitional leader, Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Zida, continued to hold talks with civilian representatives on Tuesday, meeting with a trade union delegation and leaders of the political parties who...