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French air traffic controllers go on 36-hour strike
Traffic at French airports is down by 10 percent because air traffic controllers are on a 36 hour strike over plans to simplify European airspace.
The national civil aviation authority says about one-tenth of flights were cancelled on...
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SOUTH KOREA: STRIKING WORKERS STAGE PROTEST AGAINST LAYOFFS
Korean/Nat
Thousands of workers in South Korea are holding a nationwide strike to protest against planned layoffs being made to help the country's economy recover from Asia's financial crisis.
Companies say cut backs are needed in...
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Striking taxi drivers hold rally over subsidies dispute
1. Wide of flags held by protesting taxi drivers
2. Protesters marching
3. Protesting taxi drivers holding banners, reading (Korean) "Re-approval of the taxi bill"
4. Various of protesters holding banners and chanting
5. SOUNDBITE...
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Travelers face disruption as Alitalia workers strike
1. Wide shot airport Leonardo Da Vinci in Rome
2. Midshot signs for airlines outside airport
3. Wide shot interior airport
4. Various passengers standing around
5. Woman sitting at Alitalia desk
6. Wide shot line of passengers
7. Close...
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Public transport strikes in Brussels and Rome
Brussels
1. Wide pan of empty tram tracks
2. Medium shot of empty tram tracks
3. Various of empty tram station and sign saying service disrupted due to union action
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Voxpop:
"I wasn't aware of this strike. I've...
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Unions stage transport strike
1. Top shot of rail tracks at Santa Apolonia Station, stationary trains
2. Various of stationary trains
3. Close of train windows
4. Mid of tracks
5. GV of rooftops, illuminated dome of the National Pantheon next to the Monastery of Sao...
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Germany - Strike
Members of Germany's "IG Metall" union staged more warning strikes
for a fifth consecutive day Friday (4/2).
Members of Germany's "IG Metall" union out hq of Mercedes benz
plant
various of protest
IG Metall flag in front of Mercedes...
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Bus drivers go on strike to demand better pay and conditions
Bus drivers went on strike across Brazil on Thursday, forcing millions of workers to find alternative ways to get to their jobs.
According to the trade association representing Rio de Janeiro's bus transportation companies the strike has...
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MEXICO: STUDENTS STRIKE LATEST
Spanish/Nat
After more than three months of strike students from the National Autonomous University in Mexico entered the building in a effort to begin classes
The strike is affecting nearly 200-thousand students and putting at risk...
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WRAP Flights cancelled as Lufthansa pilots strike, union, reax; ADDS rally
1. Various interior shots of Frankfurt airport terminal
2. SOUNDBITE (German) Alexander Gerhard Madjidi, Pilots'' Union spokesman:
"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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Italian civil servants strike; German markets react to debt deal, China
Rome, Italy
1. Wide of civil servants waving flags of the Italian Labour Union (UIL), one of the three main national trade unions gathered in the central Piazza Santi Apostoli
2. Close up of flags
3. Medium of protesters
4. SOUNDBITE...
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Air traffic controllers/metro strike
1. Pan exterior Orly airport
2. Mid shot air traffic control tower
3. Mid shot airport departure screens
4. Mid shot man making enquiry at desk
5. Pan over interior airport
6. Close up departure screens
7. Various people looking at...
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Transport workers strike over austerity measures
1. Various of demonstrators marching UPSOUND Chanting
2. Various close-ups of demonstrators holding banner
3. Demonstrators marching with Parliament seen in background
4. Wide of demonstrators approaching finance ministry
5. Mid of...
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Air France flight attendants strike causes chaos
Charles De Gaulle airport
1. Tracking shot of passenger pulling suitcase to interior of checking in area with lots of passengers
2. Close up of passenger looking at departure board
3. Mid of passengers looking at board
4. Pan shot right...
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Cabin crew pay strike disrupts flights in and out of Germany's financial hub
Lufthansa flight attendants escalated their bitter pay dispute on Tuesday, going out on strike at three German airports - including the two biggest, Frankfurt and Munich - in a showdown with an airline determined to bring down...
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Preview as public sector workers prep to strike over austerity measures
1. Wide exterior of the headquarters of the public sector union Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) (translates as the Workers' Commission)
2. Interior shot of CCOO Secretary General, Juan Antonio Olmos, walking through office carrying banners
3....
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Teachers and transport workers strike in government protest
1. Wide of La Paz street
2. Various of residents walking on the streets and riding bicycles
3. Image of the Virgin Mary
4. Students entering school
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Jose Luis Alvarez, teacher's union:
"We are accusing the...
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Philippines - Airline strike enters second day
The Philippine Airlines (PAL) ground crew strike entered its second day on Thursday (23/7) with management expressing confidence that earlier fears the stoppage could topple the ailing airline would not materialise. PAL said its 28...
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Bus strike and health demo in Greece; ticket collectors walkout in Portugal
Athens, Greece
1. Wide of people waiting in line at metro station to exchange public transport tickets
2. Medium of people waiting in line
3. Close-up of tickets in man's hands
4. Medium of metro ticket booth with employees exchanging...
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Commuters suffer as eight hour general strike gets under way
1. Wide shot passengers checking flight information boards at Rome''s Fiumicino airport
2. Close pan of flight information screen showing cancelled flights
3. Mid of passenger checking timetable
4. Screen showing cancelled flights
5....
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REPLAY Workers strike at hotel ready to host US delegation on French leg of Obama tour
1. Wide of exterior of Westin hotel
2. Hotel guests walking through lobby, pan to banner reading (English) "Staff on strike"
3. Hotel staff banging drums and dancing
4. Two female hotel staff banging makeshift drums
5. Close-up of man...
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FRANCE: PARIS: EIFFEL TOWER CLOSED BY STRIKE FOR 2ND DAY
English/French/Russian
Paris's best known landmark, the Eiffel Tower, has been closed by a strike for the second day running.
180 workers walked off the job in protest when a car park for night staff was closed.
The strike has hit as...
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Various - NATO Bosnia Bombing Update
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 regional...
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Nurses strike in demand for better pay and working conditions
1. Various of striking nurses protesting
2. Various of Margret Mumo
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Margret Mumo, Striking Nurse:
"We are fighting for our allowances, promotions, change of designations. Some of us have learned, up to degree...