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'It makes you feel inhuman' - railway cleaners protest as strike plans announced
Railway cleaners have staged a protest outside the Department for Transport demanding better pay and conditions, as they prepare to hold strikes across the country with the RMT on December 22. Interview with Bella Falosa, a cleaner and...
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Sir Keir Starmer campaigns in Wakefield ahead of by-election
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged supporters not to be complacent with just a few days to go before the Wakefield by-election, telling them a victory “could be the birthplace of the next Labour government”. Sir Keir addressed a...
Bloomberg
West Coast Dockworkers Extend Negotiations
The union representing about 22,000 West Coast dockworkers and their employers will continue negotiations for a new labor contract past the July 1 expiration of their current pact and said the ports will keep functioning. Sarah McGregor...
Sky News
CHOGM - Interview with UK PM Boris Johnson on rail strikes
CLEAN: Shows interior shots interview with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking on rail strikes across the UK network. . The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and Boris Johnson are all in Rwanda ahead of a summit of Commonwealth...
Bloomberg
UK's Labour Party Pushes Energy Price Cap Freeze Plan
The UK's opposition Labour Party is looking to extend Britain's windfall tax on oil and gas companies in order to fund a freeze on energy bills this winter. Lizzy Burden reports on Bloomberg Television.
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General Motors employees headed back to work Wednesday after the company reached an agreement with the United Auto Workers union. The new GM contract is still subject to an employee vote
HEADLINE: GM workers back on the job after strike
CAPTION: General Motors employees headed back to work Wednesday after the company reached an agreement with the United Auto Workers union. The new GM contract is still subject to an...
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Trade unions call for general strikes in four regions against government policies
Belgian trade unions called on workers across the country to participate in a national strike on Monday to protest against government policies that will extend the pension age, contain wages and cut into public services.
The Liege...
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South Korea - Industrial unrest intensifies
There has been a mixed response in South Korea to calls for a mass public sector walkout on Tuesday (14/1) by the Federation of Korean Trade Union (FKTU).
The finance sector was only marginally affected by the participation in the strike...
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Italy - Admiral Leighton Smith's NATO Briefing
The NATO southern commander, U.S. Admiral Leighton Smith, said on
Thursday (31/8) that NATO had conducted 300 sorties against Serb
targets in Bosnia and the majority had been largely successful.
Smith, speaking at the alliance's...
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Peruvians struggle to reach jobs amid national strike
1. Various of protesters marching in Lima streets
2. Various of newspaper headlines
3. Various of police patrolling streets
4. Former Peruvian President Alan Garcia
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alan Garcia, Former Peruvian President:
"The...
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Activists rally against crackdown on labour protests in Cambodia
Dozens of labour rights activists rallied in Bangkok on Friday to condemn the Cambodian government following a violent crackdown that cleared anti-government protesters and striking garment workers from the streets of the Cambodian...
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Fast food workers strike to protest against working conditions and pay
Strikes by fast food workers were staged in several major US cities on Thursday with organisers expecting the biggest national walk-outs yet in a demand for higher wages.
Similar protests organised by unions and community groups over the...
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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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Democrat John Edwards voiced his support Tuesday for striking television writers, telling a boisterous rally that he would work to protect the rights of union members if elected president next year.
Edwards Supports Striking Writers
Democrat John Edwards voiced his support Tuesday for striking television writers, telling a boisterous rally that he would work to protect the rights of union members if elected president next year....
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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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PHILIPPINES/UK: PHILIPPINE AIRLINES (PAL) TO CLOSE DOWN
Eng/Taga/Nat
Asia's biggest and oldest airline has announced that it will be closing down.
A statement released by beleaguered Philippine Airlines (PAL) said that efforts to rebuild the ailing carrier were no longer feasible following a...
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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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Latest Pentagon briefing, more videos
1. Rumsfeld and Myers enter press briefing
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence
"And after six days of strikes against al-Qaida and Taliban military targets we have disrupted their military communications...
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Chancellor calls for more time for inspectors during visit by "Lula"
1. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva walk in
2. SOUNDBITE: (German) Gerhard Schroeder, German Chancellor
"We have spoken about Iraq and have totally agreed, that firstly the weapon...
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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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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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FRANCE: PARIS: STRIKE PROTEST PARALYSES CITY
English/French/Russian
France was virtually paralysed Friday as millions of workers went on strike to protest against proposed social security reform and the privatisation of key public utilities.
It's the second major walkout in two...