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UK industrial action: What strikes are coming up?
The UK has been hit by a barrage of industrial action as nurses, ambulance workers and primary school teachers strike over pay and conditions.
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Paddington station almost deserted amid train strikes
Footage from London Paddington station as train driver members of Aslef and the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) walk out on Wednesday and Friday in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.
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SYND 12 1 76 STRIKE SCENES
Madrid metal worker strike
1 ms people in streets
2 ms multinational factories
3 ms sign saying factory closed
4 ms men reading sign and walking away
5 ms Guardia Civil
6 pan outside of factory and Guarda Civil patrolling
7 travel...
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SYND 3 4 71 CUSTODIANS OF ROME MUSEUMS AND OTHER NATIONAL MONUMENTS GO ON STRIKE
Custodians of Rome museums and other national monuments go on strike.
1. gv building, tilt down to closed doors and placards
2. various of museum door closed, posters and people being turned away
3. gv outside arch, pan to crowd look...
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SYND 22 9 77 SCENES IN MADRID AS SPANISH RAILWAY WORKERS GO ON STRIKE
Scenes in Madrid as Spanish railway workers go on strike.
1. gv zoom in to ms locomotive 2. gv empty railway station 3. various of people waiting 4. gv idle train 5. mcu platforms numbers, tilt down to empty platforms6. mcu zoom out and...
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SYND 4 5 74 WILDCAT STRIKES FOLLOW ARRESTS OF RAIL WORKERS
Indira Gandhi's arrests of more than 700 union officials in an attempt to avert rail strike results in wildcat strikes.
1. cu sign Delhi station2. various ws idle trains 3. red light in yard 4. various shots passengers at station 5. cu...
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Thousands attend funerals for five family members killed in Israeli strike on building
Thousands of residents of Rafah in the Gaza Strip participated in a joint funeral on Friday for 5 Palestinian family members killed in an Israeli missile strike on the city earlier in the day.
Crowds ran through the streets carrying...
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SYND 8-3-73 TRAFFIC AND RAIL CHAOS CAUSED BY RAIL ONE DAY STRIKE
Traffic and rail chaos is caused by a one day strike by rail workers.
1. ws and pan of empty platforms and concourse at Waterloo Station
2. ms of a packed underground train
3. vs traffic jams
4. vs of an emergency car park set up on...
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SYND 9/9/80 BANKNOTE PRINTERS' STRIKE IN TURKEY
Turkey's official banknote printing plant workers have been on strike in support of their claim for 100% pay rises. The dispute remains unsettled.
1. ws gateway to factory festooned with banners
2. ms factory gates, strikers standing...
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PERU: LIMA: STRIKING PROTESTERS CLASH WITH POLICE
Natural Sound
Protesters stoned buses and burned tyres in the streets of Peru's capital in the first national strike against President Alberto Fujimori since he took power nearly a decade ago.
Soldiers with automatic weapons guarded...
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SYND20/10/72 FRENCH RAILWAY WORKERS STRIKE
A strike by French railway workers practically cut off all local trains in to Paris.
1. vs idle passenger trains in station
2. ws exterior Gare de Lyon station
3. vs traffic on roads
4. vs commuters using army trucks to get to work
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SYND 23-1-73 BEIRUT TEACHERS STRIKE
Beirut teachers strike
1 mcu newspaper headlines about teachers strike
2 school signs in Arabic
3 children in playground
4 children outside school waving at camera
Film: Rev - Sound: Mute - Colour - NYFilm: c0031669 - LN Number: ...
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SYND 1-7-71 HOTEL WORKERS IN ROME STRIKE FOR HIGHER WAGES
Tourists in Rome carry their own luggage and watch hotel workers stage a demonstration on the first day of their three day strike calling for higher wages.
1. MS and tilt up of the exterior of the Exelsior hotel
2. MS of tourists...
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LIB 11/12/71 THE FORD FACTORY CLOSES DUE TO A METAL WORKERS STRIKE
Ford factory stops work due to a metal workers strike in Cologne.
1. vs of factory workers working on the assembly line
2. ms of the factory sign
Film: Rev - Sound: MAG SOF - Colour - NYFilm: No - LN Number: LN29055 - Available in HD
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SYND 12-1-73 ONE DAY GENERAL STRIKE IN ITALY
Workers collecting in central Rome and Venice in a one day general strike to enforce their demands for social reforms.
1. vs marchers with banners
2. ms marchers and drums
3. ms marchers banging on dustbin lids
4. ws marchers leave...
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SYND22/10/72 PRESIDENT ALLENDE MAKES AN ADDRESS ON STRIKE ACTION
President Salvador Allende holds a news conference on the strike situation in the country; also scenes of strikebound Santiago and closed shops.
1. ws presidential palace
2. ms Allende walks in with basket of spikes
3. ms cameramen
4. cu...
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SYND 06-03-74 FISHERMEN ON STRIKE IN GERMANY
Fishermen have gone on strike in harbour of cuxhaven near Hamburg
1. gv fishing boats moored at Cuxhaven docks
2. various shots fishing boats in docks
3. ms seaman aboards boat
4. striking fishermen
5 ms nets hanging to dry
6. various...
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SYND 2 2 79 CHILDREN HOSPITAL IN LONDON ON STRIKE
Children's hospital in London struggles to maintain normal care for patients as hospital auxilieries strike for more pay.
1. ms nurses serve meals
2. ms child in cot, zoom in to cu
3. ms child in cot, pan ward
4. ms child wheeled into...
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SYND 24 10 74 POSTAL WORKERS STRIKE IN FRANCE
French postal workers strike
1. pan along street to parked post vans
2. idle post vans on street
3. cu hand writen sign (French)
4. cu CGT union signs: (French)
5. 2 men out of gates
6. cu sign in post office, tilt down to basket full of...
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Police clash with strike supporters after Paris march
1. Mid of burning debris and damaged phone box
2. Various of demonstrators throwing bottles at police
3. Wide of protesters facing off against police in thick red smoke from flare UPSOUND: of glass smashing
4. Close of riot police being...
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SYND 18 9 69 ROME STRIKE
Striking workers stage mass demonstration in Rome
1 ms deserted building sites
2 ms demonstrating workers through streets
3 ms statue pan to demonstrators
4 mcu demonstrating workers
5 cu banners
6 mcu Aldo Giumti addresses...
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SYND 23 3 77 WORKERS ATTEND A RALLY ON ONE DAY GENERAL STRIKE IN ROME
Workers attend a rally on one day general strike in Rome.
1. gv rally
2. ms man addressing the crowd from platform
3. various of platform with workers leaders on
4. gv mass rally
5. gv platform and rally
6. ms another man speaking
7. gv...
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SYND 12-10-71METAL WORKERS VOTING ON STRIKE ACTION
German industrial workers voting to decide whether to resort to strike action in their wage dispute with employers
1 gv factories and smoking chimneys
2 workers queue to vote
3 voting papers distributed
4 workers collect papers
5...
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SYND 9 3 77 KIDS PLAY IN STREETS WHILE TEACHERS ON STRIKE FOR MORE PAY
More than eighteen thousand public school teachers went on strike last week they are demanding a 30 per cent pay rise. The strike at first only affected state-run schools, until private teachers joined the strike on Monday (March 7th)....