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GERMANY: THREAT OF NATIONWIDE STRIKE AVERTED
German/Nat
Germany no longer faces the threat of a nationwide strike.
Employers and the country's largest union - IG Metall - reached a compromise wage agreement Tuesday.
The union workers had been on strike in Bavaria since February...
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WRAP Dockers join strike action; demonstration in Athens
Piraeus
1. Wide of rally at Piraeus main square
2. Wide of banner reading in Greek "No waiting, No tolerance, We organise our class; we strengthen our class struggle so the anti-popular measures aren't accepted"
3. Wide of harbour with...
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Clashes between protesters, authorities during labour rally
1. Various of workers affiliated with the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, some carrying sticks, clashing and scuffling with riot police
2. Various of riot police spraying water cannons to disperse protesters
3. Riot police...
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Interim leader says will step down if Zelaya not allowed to return, march
1. Wide shot of interim president Roberto Micheletti swearing in new member of his cabinet
2. Cutaway camera
3. Mid of member of cabinet at swearing in ceremony, Micheletti and new minister embracing each other
4. Micheletti walking...
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Striking teachers storm airport, union agrees to end strike
1. Medium demonstrators marching
2. Wide of fire close to runway at the Alejandro Velasco Astete international airport in Cuzco
3. Wide of fire officers attempting to put out the fire
4. Wide of planes parked on the runway
5. Wide...
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HONG KONG: CATHAY PACIFIC AIRLINE LABOUR DISPUTE
English/Nat
Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong's flagship carrier, continues to hover around a serious labour dispute with its flight attendants.
The company's flight attendants have rejected management's latest proposal - but the union...
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Protest in front of Athens EU building, Brussels, Paris austerity demos
Athens, Greece
1. Wide of union members marching towards European Commission representation office holding banner reading (English) "Fight Against the Pact for the Euro and the Neoliberal Policies"
2. Medium of demonstrators as they...
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MEXICO: PRESIDENT ZEDILLO FIRES CAPITAL'S POLICE CHIEF
Spanish/Nat
Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo has fired the capital's police chief for ordering last week's crackdown on a protest by teachers.
The teachers marched to the presidential residence to demand higher pay last Thursday when...
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PERU: GENERAL STRIKE PROTEST VIOLENCE
Spanish/Nat
Violent clashes erupted between police and protestors when some 2-thousand construction workers took to the streets on the first day of a general strike in the Peruvian capital Lima.
Police used fired tear gas to disperse...
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Hearing into pilots' demand right to carry guns on flights
Washington - 25 September 2001
1. Side view of hearing
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Duane Woerth, President, Air Line Pilots Association
"The Air Line Pilots Association has reprioritized our security recommendations and have determined that...
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SYND 26 7 80 SOCIALIST UNION LEADER TURKLER FUNERAL
Security forces, hearse with coffin, mourners at Socialist trade Union leader Mr Kemal Turkler's bier, widow speaking and wailing, followers and onlookers.
1. vs crowd of mouners, coffin carried
2. vs mourners filing past coffin
3. ms...
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Lufthansa pay strike, planes on tarmac, union spox
1. Various wide shots of Lufthansa aircraft on tarmac
2. Wide of ver.di union members taking part in rally on street
3. Various midshots of protesters in march, whistling and holding flags
4. Tilt down from building to rally
5. Close up...
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Protest after Finn, Mexican killed in ambush on activists
1. Wide of APPO members (Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca) shouting anti-government slogans, protesting against the deaths of a Finnish man and a local political activist
2. Mid of sign reading (Spanish): "We demand punishment of...
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USA: NO PROGRESS IN CONTRACT TALKS WITH AMERICAN AIRLINES PILOTS
English/Nat
A spokesman for pilots of American Airlines says there has been no progress in contract talks Friday in Washington D-C.
The airline and its pilots' union have failed to cut a deal despite non-stop contract talks over the...
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WRAP Turkey clashes, Russia rally ADDS more Turkey, Iraq, Skorea rallies
Istanbul, Turkey
1. Wide of demonstrators in background, police officers with body shields march across foreground
2. Wide of water cannon being sprayed over demonstrators, zoom into police wading into crowd and using batons and shields...
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France - End of truck drivers strike
The French truckers' strike crumbled on Friday after a major trade union agreed to a deal with employers and many road blocks were lifted in spite of opposition from rival unions.
The pro-Socialist CFDT union approved a draft agreement...
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Thousands march to protest against pension reform bill
Paris
1. Wide of union trucks on Republic square in central Paris
2. Mid of union trucks and balloons
3. Cutaway CGTLabour union leader Bernard Thibault
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Bernard Thibault, CGT Labour Union Leader:
"We decided to...
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Mourners attend funeral for one of the victims of the fire at trade union building
Friends and family gathered on Thursday for the funeral service for Dmitriy Nikityuk, a pro-Russian cameraman and civic activist who died from gas poisoning during a fire at a trade union building in Odessa.
The coffin was kept closed...
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Agreement to end two-day nationwide strike
1. United Auto Workers (UAW) officials at news conference
2. UAW officials holding hands in triumph
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ron Gettelfinger, President, United Auto Workers:
"We are please to announce that at 3:05 am. (0805 GMT) this...
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FRANCE: PUBLIC WORKERS STRIKE: PARIS DEMONSTRATION
Eng/French/Nat
Up to 50,000 striking workers marched through Paris on Thursday in the biggest test of strength so far in their battle against French Prime Minister Alain Juppe's welfare reforms.
The protest brought together civil...
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Management announce closure of plant in 2014, unions comment
1. Wide of workers gathering in front of entrance to Ford's Genk plant
2. Close of Ford sign
3. Mid of sign reading: "Ford Genk"
4. Workers arriving
5. Union flags and banners on plant fences
6. Mid of workers entering plant
7. Wide of...
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PERU: CHRISTMAS CHEER MISSING ON LIMA'S HIGH STREETS
Spanish/Nat
As Christmas approaches, high street vendors in Peru are suffering the consequences of the countries struggling economy.
Spending is down on last year, and the global financial crisis has been blamed for the change in...
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MEXICO: MEXICO CITY: 8000 TEACHERS DEMAND HIGHER PAY
Spanish/Nat
Tens of thousands of teachers demanding higher pay marched to the presidential residence on Friday, eight days after a smaller march ended in a violent clash with police.
Security was unusually light along the marchers'...