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ARGENTINA: PROTESTS AGAINST IMF
Buenos Aires, Argentina - 31 May, 2000
1. Various shot of protesters with signs
Buenos Aires, Argentina 29 May, 2000
2. Wide shot of Press Conference
3.SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) President Fernando De la Rua
Buenos Aires, Argentina - 31...
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SOUTH KOREA: GOVERNMENT TO CLAMPDOWN ON STRIKE LEADERS
Korean/Nat
Vowing to set a precedent in dealing with illegal strikes, the South Korean government has issued an ultimatum to thousands of striking subway workers.
Labour unions are protesting that corporate restructuring, ordered by...
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USA: STRIKING BELL ATLANTIC EMPLOYEES TO RETURN TO WORK
English/Nat
Striking U-S phone company employees are going back to work after a tentative contract was agreed to end the Bell Atlantic strike.
More than 70-thousand Bell Atlantic workers had spent three days on strike over a dispute...
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DV Phillip Homeless
HEADLINE: Giving back - a holiday story
dc-philip
CAPTION: Philip Ford was once a drug addict. But thanks to DC's Central Union Mission, he's on his feet again. And this year, he's giving back to the people that were once his...
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Thousands of Wall Street protesters marched in the streets of Oakland on Wednesday as they geared up with labor unions to picket banks, take over foreclosed homes and vacant buildings and disrupt operations at the nation's fifth-busiest port.
HEADLINE: Workers, students join Occupy rally in Oakland
CAPTION: Thousands of Wall Street protesters marched in the streets of Oakland on Wednesday as they geared up with labor unions to picket banks, take over foreclosed homes and...
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Union news conference on deal with KLM to take over Alitalia
1. Wide of Alitalia building at Fiumicino airport
2. Close-up of Alitalia sign
3. Wide of aeroplane flying
4. Wide of terminal where assembly of pilots took place
5. Various of people participating in assembly
6. SOUNDBITE: (Italian)...
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BELGIUM: BRUSSELS: NEGOTIATIONS FOR EU MEMBERSHIP UPDATE
Brussels, Belgium March 31, 1998
1. Exterior EU Council of Ministers meeting
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Cyprus Foreign Minister Ionnanis Kasoulides
3. Cutaway reporters
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Cyprus Foreign Minister Ionnanis Kasoulides
5....
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Teachers march to mark first anniversary of protests
1. Various of demonstration held for anniversary of Oaxaca clashes
2. Protesters holding sign reading in Spanish: "Not a single additional repression of the people of city of Oaxaca"
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ezequiel Rosales, Teachers'...
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Zimbabwe teachers strike over pay and conditions
1. Wide shot of children outside school
2. Various of schoolchildren
3. Set-up shot of Secretary General of the Progressive Teachers Union, Raymond Manjongwe
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Raymond Manjongwe, Secretary General of the Progressive...
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Protest against extending the pension age, containing wages and cutting public services
Thousands of workers converged on downtown Brussels on Thursday to protest against government
policies that will extend the pension age, contain wages and cut into public services.
The march marked the start of a month-long campaign...
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Unions and managers of the nation's largest commuter railroad on Thursday reached a tentative contract agreement, averting a weekend strike that stood to inconvenience hundreds of thousands of riders. (July 17)
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SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York:
"Compromise by definition means that neither side gets everything that they wanted to get, but it means that we reached an agreement...
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FRANCE: OASIS CANCEL TOUR DATES DUE TO BLOCKADE BY TRUCKERS
French/Nat
Striking French truckers tied up commerce, choked the country's fuel supply and blocked freight traffic through the Channel Tunnel on Tuesday.
The truck strike even forced the Britpop megaband Oasis to cancel three shows on...
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SOUTH KOREA: SEOUL: PARALYSING INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE ENTERS 15TH DAY
Eng/Korean/Nat
A paralysing industrial dispute entered its 15th day in South Korea on Wednesday, as thousands of workers rallied in cold and snow shouting "Down with Kim Young Sam".
The South Korean workers are accusing their president...
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GERMANY: BERLIN: A-G FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY
German/Nat
Germany's second-largest construction firm, Philipp Holzmann AktienGesellschaft (AG), filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday.
Despite pressure from German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, bankers and company officials failed to agree on...
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Labour union leader asks for asylum
FILE: Washington DC - 13 January 2003
1. Venezuelan labour union leader Carlos Ortega arriving at US State Department
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos Ortega, Venezuelan labour union leader:
"More hunger, more misery, more unemployment, no...
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Thousands march to protest against pension reform bill
Paris
1. Wide of union trucks on Place de la Republique in central Paris
2. Mid of union trucks and balloons
3. Cutaway of Conf�d�ration G�n�rale du Travail (CGT) Labour union leader Bernard Thibault
4. SOUNDBITE (French)...
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John Kerry address teachers' convention
1. John Kerry shaking hands with supporters
2. Kerry walking on to stage
3. Wide shot of Kerry on stage
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Democratic Candidate for President, Senator John Kerry:
"I have a special request for the English teachers...
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German chancellor faces protests as she visits for talks with PM
October 8, 2012
1. Waitress pouring draft beer into a beer glass at Cargo bar
2. Close of glass filling with beer
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Athanasios Syrianos, President of "Eza" Hellenic brewery:
"Merkel's visit is a positive sign that...
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A Beautiful Mind and Gosford Park take top honours at writers awards
1. Arrival Anthony Edwards.
3. Arrival John Ratzenberger
3. Arrival Julie Andrews and Blake Edwards
4. Ted Danson
5. Fat guy
6. Arrival Arrival Tom Selleck
7. Cutaway
8. Sot Tom Selleck - "I've done a few improvisations in acting class....
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Strikes disrupt flights, state and bank services
1. Wide of head of demonstration
2. Demonstrators holding banner reading (Greek) "Strong popular front against policies of free market and capital"
3. Close up of demonstrators marching
4. Wide shot of demonstration
5. Pan of marchers...
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Extra troops deployed as labour unions call strike
Main south road, Beirut
1. Wide of labour union protestors cutting main south road by burning tyres
2. Mid of flames
3. Wide of protestors
4. Mid of protestors shouting
5. Various of soldiers removing burning tyres
Central Beirut
6....
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PHILIPPINES: PHILIPPINE AIRLINES GROUND STAFF GO ON STRIKE
English/Nat
Philippine Airlines' ground staff in Manila have walked out on strike in support of thousands of workers who were laid off during a pilots' strike in June.
The airline's management says the strike could be a fatal blow to...
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ARGENTINA: PROTEST AGAINST GOVERNMENT'S SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POLICY
Spanish/Nat
Tens of thousands of people gathered outside the presidential palace in Buenos Aires Thursday to protest at what they say is the effects of the Argentinian government's social and economic policy.
The rally -- the largest...
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Workers who survived factory collapse take to the streets to demand compensation
Bangladesh began compiling details on Monday of the victims of the 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse as part of a compensation deal, but dozens of people took to the streets demanding a more complete accounting of the disaster.
The...