Bank workers on 48 hour strike over pay claim

(27 May 2005)
1. Wide shot of bank workers marching
2. Medium shot of march
3. Zoom out from close-up of woman holding flyer reading "Salary adjustment - now" to medium of same
4. People walking past wall with posters about the strike
5. Close up shot of posters reading "Bank strike - 26th and 27th of May"
6. Strikers approaching bank building
7. Workers gathering in front of bank branch
8. Protesters hitting glass door - shot from inside bank
9. Security inside empty bank
10. Workers outside bank - shot from inside bank
11. Pan across workers marching and clapping hands
12. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Eduardo Dimas Berrozpe, spokesman for Bank workers union: "We are asking for a 30 percent pay rise to start with, then we will try to re-negotiate our contracts collectively. The main obstacles to our negotiations are the foreign banks that do not comply with local laws, public banks that follow the example of the foreign banks and the labour ministry that doesn't make them respect the law."
13. Protesters inside bank chanting
14. Pan shot from above of protesters inside bank
15. Pan of protesters gathered in the street outside bank

STORYLINE:

Bank workers in Argentina have gone on strike for 48 hours, sparking a minor cash shortage in the South American country.

The bank workers' union - Associacion Bancaria , called the strike for Thursday and Friday to demand a 30 percent pay increase.

The action started with employees of national banks but was soon joined by employees of private and foreign banks.

Workers protested all day on Thursday in the streets of downtown Buenos Aires.

Playing drums and shouting slogans against bankers and the government, protesters invaded a couple of branches of the Argentinian Banco de la Nacion.

Only pensioners are being allowed to collect money that is already running out in ATM machines around the country.

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