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CAN288 POSTAL WORKERS STRIKE IN GREAT BRITAIN
Mail piles up as postal strike is threatened. Postmaster General Reginald Bevins is refusing to offer more than a 4 percent pay rise to postal workers. Workers at the Mount Pleasant sorting office have been on strike for several days....
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SYND 17/1/80 FORD CAR WORKERS ON STRIKE IN SOUTH AFRICA
South African security police have detained black labour leader Thozamile Botha who helped achieve a workers' victory at the local Ford Motor Company, following a week of wildcat strikes and stoppages of work. Also detained were two...
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SYND 16 5 68 RENAULT FACTORY WORKERS STRIKE IN SYMPATHY WITH STUDENTS IN PARIS
A group of Renault car factory workers strike in sympathy with students in Paris.
1. gv Renault factory, small crowd outside
2. various of small group of workers at gates
3. various of workers raising a red flag on pole outside the...
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UPITN 13 5 79 WORKERS STRIKE DEMONSTRATION
Thousand of workers all over Italy and from various sectors of industry stage a four hour strike to protest against the fact that their contracts which expired in 1978 have not been renewed. Metalworkers are asking for fewer working...
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CAN477 SCENES IN VIENNA AS AUSTRIAN POSTAL, AIR TRAFFIC AND RAILWAY WORKERS STRIKE FOR HIGHER PAY
Scenes in Vienna as Austrian postal, railway and air traffic workers strike for higher pay.
1. gv exterior building, pan to entrance
2. cu strike notice, pan to empty railway platform
3. gv empty railway station, pan across platforms
4....
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SYND 23 12 68 TRANSPORT STRIKE IN ROME
Massive traffic jams caused in Rome as transport workers strike
1. pan across traffic jam around colosseum
2. ms traffic
3. ls traffic jam
4. ms people waiting at bus stop
5. ms man geting lift in private car
6. ms people running after...
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SYND 14 11 67 PARIS TAXIE DRIVERS ON STRIKE
Despite taxi drivers coming out on strike, a full out transport strike fails in Paris
1. gv traffic along the Champs e'Lysee, paris, Arch de Triomphe in distance
2. ms taxi ranks
3. cu taxi sign on top of cab, pan to driver who places...
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CAN410 CUSTOMS ON STRIKE, GOVERNMENT SAYS ACTION HAS FAILED
Italian customs officials strike, but the government reports it to be a flop.
1. vs demonstrators and placards arriving at the Colosseum
2. ws Colosseum and demonstrators gathered
3. vs demonstrators and speakers
4. bs demonstrators...
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CAN588 PEOPLE ARE TRANSPORTED IN ARMY LORRIES AS TRANSIT STRIKE CONTINUES
Rome transport workers go on strike again, army attempts to comensate for failure of public transport.
1. ms pan right traffic jam
2. ms traffic jam
3. ms truck carrying passengers
4. ms to ws truck passes coliseum
5. ms lorry en route...
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CAN710 GREEK CONSTRUCTION WORKERS STAGE TWENTY FOUR HOUR STRIKE IN ATHENS
Greek construction workers stage twenty four hour strike in Athens.
1. various of crowd of strikers outside theatre entrance
2. ms police standing by
3. gv strikers chanting and clapping
4. ms strikers chanting and waving
5. gv tilt...
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SYND 25 8 80 ELECTRICITY WORKERS ON STRIKE IN SAN SALVADOR
A nationwide power blackout stalled public transport, caused water shortages and triggered more political violence, in El Salvador
1. gv power station in San Salvador, helicopter patrols overhead
2. gv electricity workers
3. ms...
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SYND 11 7 68 TWENTY FOUR HOUR STRIKE HITS ROME
Twenty four hour general strike hits Rome, industrial and agricultural workers demand their salaries and better working conditions.
1. vs crowd marches through streets with banners
2. ms people watching, pan to demonstrators
3. ms head...
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UPITN 18 5 79 RIALWAY STRIKE IN LISBON CAUSES DELAYS AND QUEUES
A twelve hour railway strike in Lisbon caused delays and traffic congestion as workers demanded higher pay. Library story and cuts.
1. ws railway station
2. ws almost deserted station forecourt
3. vs deserted platforms, immobile...
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CAN827CANADIAN RAILWAY WORKERS GO ON STRIKE
Canadian railway workers go on strike
1. ms men picket in front of Ottawa Rail Station
2. mcu placard 'No sick benefits . . . A fair share in the economy' [ENGLISH]
3. mcu pan carries placard 'In Rain, Snow, Sleet, sickness or health, we...
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CAN773GOVERNMENT WORKERS GO ON STRIKE, MARCH THROUGH PARIS
An estimated 25,000 workers--government employees--march in Paris as the climax of general strike.
1. has, ws of marchers
2. ts marchers with banners, shouting
3. ts, mcu of demonstrators with placards, tilt up to spectators
4. has...
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CAN687 TRANSIT STRIKE PARALYZES NEW YORK CITY
New York hit by a mass transportation strike.
1. ws empty Fifth Avenue
2. ms exterior rolling digital news sign announcing strike
3. ms people looking
4. ms pickets at bus station
5. ms empty subway entrance tilt down
6. ws pan left from...
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CAN499 GONDOLIERS TAKE ON MOTORBOATS BY GOING ON STRIKE
Venetian gondoliers go on strike over motorboats.
1. mcu bow of gondola from within, tilting side to side, pan right to edge of gondola, empty water
2. ms gondolier rocking the boat, tilt up he is shaking his hand at passing motorboat
3....
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CAN 496 FRENCH AUTO FACTORY WORKERS CONTINUE STRIKE
Lyon workers continue demonstration at berliet auto factory lock - out.
1. ws demonstrators along road:
2. cu of strikers walking along road
3. ws police trying to stop demonstrators
3. ws woman watching out of window
4. ms...
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CAN438 STRIKING BELIGIAN OIL WORKERS SABOTAGE TRUCK TYRES TO PREVENT STRIKE BREAKING
Striking Beligian oil workers sabotage truck tyres to prevent strike breaking.
1. ws exterior refinery
2. ms and pan along line of petrol tankers parked at refinery
3. vs petrol storage tanks
4. vs strikers gathered around tanker
5. cu...
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Protesters damage property during general strike march
1. Ground shot of fire burning in street outside Catholic cathedral
2. Mid of fire burning in street
3. Wide of smoke rising from burning garbage with riot police standing nearby
4. Recycling bin on fire
5. Ground shot of fire...
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GS 13 1 82 TRANSPORT STRIKE IN LISBON
Scenes in Lisbon as transport workers go on strike.
1. vs of buses parked in the terminus
2. ws of a strike banner
3. vs of closed underground entrances and trams not moving
4. vs of streets busy with traffic
Film: Rev ? Sound: Mag Trk ?...
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CAN974 SHIPBUILDERS ON 58TH DAY OF STRIKE
Shipbuilders strike in atlantic port town of st Nazaire. over 50,000 workers demonstrate workers have been on strike for 58 day.
1. ws demonstrators with placards
2. ms pan onlookers clapping
3. vs demonstrators through streets
4. ws...
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CAN264 STRIKES AND WORK-TO-RULE CAUSE UK MAIL CHAOS
Unofficial postal strike followed by work-to-rule causing major mail delays in London and several other urban centres.
1. ws St Paul's Cathedral, pan to Mount Pleasant post office
2. cu sign above door 'Mount Pleasant Post Office'
3....
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CAN270 VOTE TAKEN ON CONTINUING STRIKE BY POST WORKERS UNION
Postal wage deadlock threatens Britain's telephone and telegraph facilities.
1. ms Mount Pleasant Post Office with pickets
2. cu sign with name 'Mount Pleasant Post Office'
3. ms two pickets
4. cu notice 'Withdraw Stupid Threats...'...