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WRAP Scuffles and rain as protest over youth labour law starts
1. Various of demonstrators starting to march from Place d'Italie with balloons and union banners, to protest at the CPE (= Contrat Premier Embauche, the new youth employment contract)
2. Various of demonstrators holding anti-CPE...
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Public service workers' union in demo over prices
1. Wide of protesters gathering
2. Pan from protesters holding banner reading 'Strike' to protesters drumming
3. Pan across protesters dressed in red and blue (union colours)
4. Wide of protesters carrying flags marching
5. Various...
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South Korea and EU conclude their first round of free trade negs
1. Wide of Korean chief negotiator to the Korea-European Union (EU) Free-Trade Agreement (FTA) talks, Kim Han-soo, and EU chief negotiator Ignacio Garcia Bercero at podiums
2. Reporters
3. Kim and Garcia Bercero at podiums
4....
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South Africa's 270,000-member miners union strike over safety
1. Close of South African Communist party flag being carried by singing marchers
2. Close up of mine worker dancing in the street
3. Wide of striking mine workers listening to leaders speech
4. Mid of mine workers with banner that reads:...
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Former employees of US companies rally demanding their jobs back
Dismissed staff of multinational companies in Argentina supported by members of workers' and left wing parties protested outside the US Embassy in Buenos Aires on Wednesday night.
About 400 people marched on the Embassy before burning US...
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SYND 21 2 71 UNION LEADERS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST WILD CAT STRIKE BILL
Trade Union Council Secretary General Vic Feather and other union leaders marching at head of vast parade to protest the government's industrial relations bill to outlaw wildcat strikes.
1. ms Vic Feather and union officials leading...
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5,000 Lufthansa staff strike for higher pay
1. Wide exterior of Frankfurt airport with striking employees outside
2. Mid of striking employees
3. Mid of strike banner
4. Pan from sign reading:(German) "Strike" to employees striking
5. Close-up of man reading sign
6. Various of...
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ECUADOR: TEACHERS PROTEST
Spanish/Nat
Ecuadorian police have used tear gas to disperse over 140- thousand professors and teachers demanding a 100 dollar pay rise.
Tensions ran high on the streets of the capital, Quito on Monday, as a large number of riot police...
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Protest by opponents of potential U.S.-South Korean free trade agreement
1. Various shots of meeting between US and South Korean Trade delegates
2. Wide shot of protesters
3. Medium shot of protesters
4. Various of protesters
5. Wide shot of news conference
6. Medium shot of KorUS FTA (Korean US Free Trade...
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WRAP Police converge on Oaxaca day after US journalist killed, funerals, Interior Ministry
Oaxaca, 28 October 2006
1. Troops getting off bus
2. Troops with guns
3. Officer with gun
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Officer Armando Navarrete Delgado, Mexican Federal Police:
"I haven't entered the city yet. I see everything is calm over...
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Lebanon - Strike / Clashes / New President
Hezbollah blocks roads to enforce strike; cars on fire, clashes
Beirut - 7 May 2008
1. Tracking shot of protesters throwing stones and army soldiers pushing them away
2. Mid of protesters being pushed away by soldiers, AUDIO:...
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FRANCE: AIR FRANCE MANAGEMENT AND PILOTS NEGOTIATE OVER STRIKE
English/Nat
Air France officials sat down for talks with striking pilots on Thursday evening, hoping to break a deadlock that has become a public relations disaster ahead of the World Cup.
The talks went on into the early hours of Friday...
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Alitalia workers protest to demand place at negotiation table
1. Wide shot of workers with banner protesting in front of the Ministry of Welfare
2. Wide shot of policemen
3. Union leader talking to protester with megaphone organising the spontaneous march to Palazzo Chigi, Prime Minister's...
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General strike starts against austerity, tourists; clashes
Barcelona
1. Wide of standoff between riot police and protesters, rubbish bins overturned, police charge against protesters, protesters withdraw UPSOUND: Shot
2. Mid of police and protesters scuffling, ++AUDIO OF SHOT++, police...
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VENEZUELA: CARACAS: STABLE LADS END 2 WEEK STRIKE
Spanish/Nat
More than 1200 stable boys have ended a two-week strike in Caracas, Venezuela, bringing to an end the suffering of hundreds of horses under their care.
The grooms have demanded an increase in their salaries and better...
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COLOMBIA: STRIKING STATE WORKERS MARCH AGAINST PRESIDENT SAMPER
Spanish/Nat
Tens of thousands of striking state workers marched in Colombian cities Tuesday, defying president Ernesto Samper.
Union bosses said the strike, billed as the biggest in 20 years, had won the total support of an estimated...
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Mass rally to mark May Day
1. Zoom out from May Day parade in city centre
2. Man with anti-Sarkozy banners and puppets
3. Close-up banner reading (French) "Sarkozy paranoid"
4. Cartoon mocking Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni
5. Protesters holding trade union...
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Protesting doctors defend strike that has left some hospitals empty
1. Various of protest outside Vall d'Hebron Hospital
2. SOUNDBITE: (Catalan) Jordi Martinez, doctor:
"Our main vindication is that of the patient. We need to recover our welfare system. And for that we need to get our budget back."
3....
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Demonstration to coincide with transport strike
1. Wide top shot demonstration
2. Various demonstrators with banners in street
3. SOUNDBITE: (French) Francois Chereque, Moderate CFDT union leader:
"We have done everything for the Olympic visit to go well. We support the Olympic games....
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Anger from relatives of the 43 missing students after meeting with head of Mexico's CIA
Mexican authorities announced on Friday that they had arrested a former deputy police director from Cocula for allegedly participating in the disappearance of 43 college students, whose unknown whereabouts have rocked the country with...
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Greek unions launch first major challenge on austerity measures in mass strike
1. Various strikers gathering in Syntagma square, Parliament in background
2. Wide of demonstrators from tourism union protesting outside luxury hotel in central Athens
3. Demonstrators chanting slogans and holding banner reading (Greek)...
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Pilots vote to escalate industrial action
1. Various of pilots walking down street
2. Various of pilots walking into meeting
3. John Findlay, Secretary General Pilot's Union, walking down steps after meeting
4. Cutaway of media
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Findlay, Secretary...
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Hollywood writers look at proposed deal, Moore reax
1. Tilt down of entrance to Crowne Plaza Hotel
2. Set-up shot of Writers Guild of America East President, Michael Winship
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael Winship, Writers Guild of America East President:
"The general sense of it is that...
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Sardinian metal workers protest factory shutdown, scuffle with police
Scuffles broke out on Monday between the Italian police and a group of Sardinian metal workers during a demonstration against the closure of their aluminium factory.
The US-based multinational Alcoa started closing its plant located in...