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Union members decide not to strike over GM job cuts plan
1. Wide of Opel flags
2. Mid of Opel entrance with sign reading General Motors Belgium
3. Workers entering plant
4. Various of workers at meeting
5. Workers leaving plant
6. Close up of poster reading: "JOB" with Opel logo, workers...
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General strike over pensions
1. Wide shot of demonstrators
2. Pan across demonstration
3. Closer shot demonstrators
4. Police officers in demonstration laughing
5. SOUNDBITE (German) Hans Sallmutter, President of GPA, Austria's largest workers' union (representing...
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BOLIVIA: STATE OF SIEGE UPDATE
Spanish/Nat
The Bolivian government confirmed today (Thursday) that it had arrested almost 400 people accused of sedition after President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada ordered a state of siege to stem violent labor unrest.
Bolivia awoke...
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India's multi-billion dollar tea industry is under threat
New Delhi - recent
1. Close of tea boiling in pan
2. Wide of street side tea vendor pouring tea through a sieve
3. Close of tea tumblers being taken
4. Various of man drinking tea
5. Close of tea-dust kept in a tin
6. Low angle of man...
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Greece farmers, French unions stage demos
Paris
1. Various of protesters marching with union flags and banners
2. Bernard Thibault, head of the Confederation Generale du Travail (CGT) trade union, marching
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Bernard Thibault, head of the Confederation...
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SOUTH KOREA: WORKERS STAGE ONE DAY STRIKE AS PART OF NEW STRATEGY
Eng/Kor/Nat
Thousands of workers put down their tools Wednesday for a weekly one day strike, a new strategy aimed at forcing the government to repeal a labour law passed four weeks ago.
It was the first strike since union leaders...
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Screen Actors Guild (SAG) leaders hold rally in LA
AP Entertainment
Los Angeles, 9 June 2008
1. Wide of exterior of Screen Actors Guild (SAG) headquarter where SAG solidarity rally is being held
2. Wide of protestors
3. Medium shot of protesters marching holding signs
4. SAG President...
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School teachers strike over staff cuts imposed as part of austerity plan
1. Wide of Lope de Vega secondary school with teachers picketing outside
2. Mid shot of Lope de Vega secondary school
3. Close up of sign reading, (Spanish) "State schools belong to everyone and are for everyone. SOS public...
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Unions hold 24-hour strike to protest against government economic policies
1. Wide of Acropolis with ancient Parthenon temple
2. Wide of Athens city centre with mostly taxis driving by
3. Mid of people hailing taxis from bus stop
4. Close of taxi sign
5. Wide of metro entrance with people standing around
6....
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Protest as carmaker plans 8,000 job cuts as south Europe sales drop
Struggling French carmaker PSA Peugeot-Citroen, facing diving sales in crisis-hit southern Europe, announced a drastic cost-cutting plan on Thursday to slash 8,000 jobs in France and close a major factory north of Paris.
Workers at the...
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Secretary of Labor, unions comment on port strike, ports affected
Washington DC - 07 October 2002
1. Wideshot of US Secretary of Labour, Elaine Chao
2. Cutaway journalists
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Elaine Chao, US Secretary of Labour:
"The country has been patient. We have been patient. But now ordinary...
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Miners set up razor wire ahead of mass strike in platinum mining sector
Security was being heightened outside platinum mines across the northwestern mining belt of South Africa on Wednesday ahead of a planned mass strike on Thursday.
The strike for higher wages could affect more than half the platinum...
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Secretary of State John Kerry met with European Union officials ahead of announced EU plans to extend sanctions against Russian officials. The State Department has strongly condemned Russia's role in continued violence in eastern Ukraine. (Jan. 29)
Speaking alongside Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics in Washington, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry emphasized the important role Latvia, the current holder of the European Union presidency, plays in the European response to...
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Utility workers cause power cut, reax to efforts to form unity govt
1. Tilt up from protesting public electricity workers gathering outside the health ministry where power was symbolically cut because of unpaid electricity bills
2. Close up of sign identifying ministry
3. Ground shot of loud speakers...
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SKorean union members protest against free trade negotiations; bite
1. Pan from hotel where US Trade Representative meeting was taking place to protesters in front
2. Various of protesters
3. People chanting and waving signs
4. Man leading protest chant (English) 'No More FTA' (Free Trade Agreement))
5....
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Public transport and flights disrupted as workers strike in four provinces
Public transport and flights were disrupted throughout Belgium on Monday as workers went on strike over new reforms that will extend the pension age and cut funding to public services.
Monday's action in four Belgium provinces,...
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Cosatu union members protest govt, electricity price hike
1. Wide of demonstration in central Johannesburg
2. Police riding horses, watching demonstration
3. Wide of demonstration led by trade union COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions)
4. Pan of demonstrators marching towards...
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Strike by medical staff affects hospitals in territory
1. Exterior of Shifa hospital
2. Sign at entrance to hospital
3. Various of people looking out of hospital windows
4. Entrance to hospital
5. Patient on bed
6. Empty beds
7. Empty chair
8. Pan of empty emergency room
9. Patient standing...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: NEGOTIATIONS UNDERWAY TO END MINERS' STRIKE
Russian/Eng/Nat
Russian and Ukrainian government officials have met trade union leaders in the two countries to try to end a strike by more than a (m) million coal miners.
The strike is the largest walkout in the former Soviet Union...
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COLOMBIA: BOGOTA: JUDICIAL UNION CALL AN INDEFINITE STRIKE
Spanish/Nat
Forty thousand workers from Colombia's judicial union have called an indefinite strike until the government meets their demands for a 30 per cent pay rise.
From Monday, all the country's courts will be closed.
The strike...
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WRAP Adds march to memorial service marking anniversary of rebellion against Yeltsin
October 03 2003
1. Wide shot memorial service outside Ostankino television station attended by about 200 Communists, carrying red flags and flowers
2. Various of religious figures leading the memorial service
3. People holding photos...
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Govenor Ulises Ruiz gives press conference
1. Pan right governor of Oaxaca, Ulises Ruiz, entering his office and sitting down
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ulises Ruiz, Governor of Oaxaca:
"These are the demands of one group that doesn't represent the people of Oaxaca, a group which I...
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Thousands take part in anti-austerity protest
1. Wide pan of TUC (Trades Union Congress) march, protesters waving red union flags
2. Mid of marchers carrying banners and placards
3. Close of protesters
4. Pan from marchers to Big Ben
5. Mid of police cordon
6. Wide of Houses of...
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Tens of thousands of labour union members protest against govt policies
Threatening a general strike around 100-thousand Polish union members marched through Warsaw on Saturday to vent their anger against the government's labour and wage policies.
The protesters marched to the historic Castle Square with...