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800 flights cancelled as Lufthansa pilots strike, union, reax
1. Various interior shots of Frankfurt airport terminal
2. SOUNDBITE: (German) Alexander Gerhard Madjidi, spokesman Pilots'' Union:
"We announced this strike a week early to give Lufthansa the chance to come to terms with us and to give...
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Civil servants union ends 135-day strike over non-payment of salaries; Haniyeh
Ramallah, West Bank
1. Exterior of presidential compound
2. Various of Workers' Union representatives and government representatives shaking hands and hugging
3. Deputy Palestinian Finance Minister Samir Abu Aisheh signing agreement...
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WRAP A'math of student riots in Paris ADDS Lyon a'math
Paris
1. Smouldering debris in road, tilt up to municipal workers clearing burnt out car
2. Wide of workers pushing burnt car out of road
3. Low angle of woman shouting at group of young people, UPSOUND: (French) "Who do you want me to...
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VENEZUELA: PROTESTS AGAINST GOVERNMENT REFUSAL TO RAISE PAY
Spanish/Nat
In Venezuela thousands have taken part in a national strike to demand pay increases for municipal government employees.
The workers say that the government of President Rafael Caldera agreed to the increase five months...
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Now that the Directors Guild has reached a tentative contract with Hollywood studios, will writers follow suit? AP correspondent John Mone visits the picket line outside NBC Universal in Burbank, Calif., to find out.
HEADLINE: Talks could resume in writers strike
CAPTION: Top studio executives are calling on striking Hollywood writers to begin informal contract talks, and it may happen as early as next week. Officials at the writers guild plan to...
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WRAP Greek workers go on nationwide strike ADDS Acropolis closed
Piraeus - 19 October 2011
1. High shot of docked ferries
2. Protesters at ferry entrance being offered cookies
3. Wide of scene
Athens - 19 October 2011
4. Wide of empty tracks at national train station
5. Signs on platform reading:...
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WORLDWIDE: DAIMLER BENZ REFUSES TO SUPPORT AIRCRAFT COUNTERPART
Eng/Dutch/Nat
Germany's largest industrial group, Daimler-Benz, has suspended trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange following the collapse of talks to save its Dutch aircraft subsidiary Fokker from bankruptcy.
Daimler-Benz is...
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USA: NORTHWEST AIRLINES PILOT'S STRIKE LATEST SITUATION
English/Nat
Northwest Airlines has laid off 177 workers and warned that many more of its 50-thousand employees could follow.
Following the lay-offs, U-S Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater held talks with both parties involved at the...
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Flags set alight at anti-war protest
1. Wide shot crowd
2. Medium shot crowd with banner
3. Medium shot musicians
4. Medium shot police walking in front of demonstrators
5. Long shot British embassy
6. Cutaway police in front of embassy
7. Cutaway people watching from...
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Ford sued in Argentina over alleged kidnappings during military dictatorship
General Pacheco, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Buenos Aires
1. Zoom out from medium shot of water tower with Ford company logo on plant's exterior to wide shot of Ford plant
2. Wide shot of Ford factory plant in Buenos Aires
3....
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Aviation authority gives Alitalia until Thurs for new solution; protests
1. Wide shot airplanes at Leonardo Da Vinci airport
2. Wide of ground workers marching and chanting in Italian "metti la firma" - sign the deal
3. Close of workers with fists in air chanting
4. Wide back view of Alitalia ground workers...
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Spanish angered by austerity, recession unemployment march on May Day
1. Wide of protesters at Plaza de Cibeles (Cibeles Square)
2. Mid of demonstration
3. Banner reading: (Spanish) "You ask for patience, Rajoy? You should become unemployed today!" (referring to Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy)
4....
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COLOMBIA: STRIKING PUBLIC WORKERS PROTEST MARCH
Spanish/Nat
Tens of thousands of Colombian public workers have refused to end a strike even after the government declared it illegal and docked their pay.
The strike - now entering its fourth day - was called to protest against a...
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Martinsa-Fadesa construction company files for creditor protection
1. Tilt-down of building under construction with Martinsa Fadesa banner
2. Various close-ups of banner and building
3. Tilt-down from banner to construction workers
4. Various of workers
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Javier Lopez, Foreman:
"We...
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EL SALVADOR: GOVERNMENT WORKERS CLASH WITH RIOT POLICE
Spanish/Nat
Talks have been taking place between government officials and union leaders in El Salvador in a bid to settle an industrial dispute that led to rioting.
More than thirty people - including four police were injured in...
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FRANCE: NATIONAL STRIKES: TALKS CONTINUE
French/Nat
French Prime Minister Alain Juppe and union leaders have finished nearly ten hours of talks in Paris.
The summit was called last week in an effort by the government to stop the weeks of strikes that have crippled the...
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Protesters close roads, burn police station after clashing with police
Caranavi, 7 May 2010
1. Wide of road, police forces firing tear gas shells towards
2. Wide of riot police chasing protesters, firing tear gas shells
3. Wide of police running after protesters, tear gas fumes and smoke from burning...
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PERU: LIMA: ANTI-FUJIMORI PROTESTS
Spanish/Nat
Heavily armed soldiers used tear gas on Wednesday to disperse a crowd of about 1-thousand protestors who tried to storm the presidential palace in Peru's capital, Lima.
They were protesting at plans by Peruvian President...
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Lula and party's main candidates campaign in hometown
Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil - 02 October, 2010
1. Election rally
2. President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, standing through car sun-roof (centre, bearded) with (left) Workers Party Presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff and...
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Arrest made after Indonesian maid beaten by employer
Hong Kong police arrested a woman on Monday for allegedly torturing her Indonesian maid, the latest case to provoke outrage over abuses suffered by the city's army of foreign domestic workers.
Police said they detained a 44-year-old...
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Newspapers, voxpops as administrator warns deal needed or airline will fold
AP Television
FILE: Rome - September 12, 2008
1. Alitalia logo on plane moving on runway
2. Alitalia plane tail
Alitalia VNR
FILE: location and date unknown
3. Alitalia plane taking off
AP Television
FILE: Rome - September 12, 2008
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FRANCE: POWERFUL FRENCH UNION STAGES MAJOR LABOUR DEMONSTRATION
French/Nat
A powerful French union, Saturday, staged the first major labour demonstration in Paris since the summer vacation in a test of support for what could be an autumn of industrial unrest.
"Stop the Layoffs" read one banner in...
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Lebanon - Army To Prevent Demonstrations
The Lebanese government on Wednesday (28/2) ordered the army into the streets to prevent labour unions staging demonstrations in support of claims for a 76 per cent pay rise.
Ws of the Presidential Palace (Baabda)
vs of Prime Minister...
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Second in a series of three general strikes by unions
1. Various of health workers protest, strikers holding banners and singing
2. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Joo Ho Lee, Korean Health and Medical Union
"We workers also want a successful World Cup and for Korea to make it to the second round. But...