Brazil fans show support for stewards' protest at ticketing office

Описание: (15 Jun 2010) SHOTLIST
1. Wide exterior of ticketing centre for Ellis Park Stadium, private security workers behind a metal fence, protesting over pay
2. Mid of protestor looking out from behind a metal fence
3. Mid of protestors singing and dancing behind a metal fence
4. Mid, pull out to wide, Brazilian football fans mixing with protestors, singing and dancing
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ilan Bermeister, football supporter from Australia:
"I paid 160 dollars for my ticket, I want my security. This is my security and they are not giving them their money. They are not giving the money back to Africa. This is Africa, this is Africa right here, they promised them 410 rand tonight, they want to give them less than 200."
6. Wide of football supporters walking by hitting drums
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Thandi Khlandkla, security worker:
"The money we are supposed to get, they are not giving us the money. So we want that money and we are planning to go on strike until this FIFA World Cup ends on the 11th of July. We want our money. They are benefiting. They are rich, we are poor, we are not benefiting. That's bull, we want our money."
8. Wide of protest
9. Wide of military vehicles arriving at Ellis Park Stadium
STORYLINE
World Cup organisers were forced to draft in a thousand extra police to control crowds at the Brazil versus North Korea game in Johannesburg on Tuesday as a pay dispute involving stewards spread to half the stadiums hosting the tournament.
Four hundred stewards walked off the job earlier in the day at the Ellis Park venue where Brazil open their World cup campaign .
As fans descended on the stadium they found the security staff protesting outside - some supporters joining them in an impromptu show of support.
One fan from Australia, Ilan Bermeister, who had come to see the game,was critical of the security firm which employed the men - accusing the company of not giving the stewards a fair pay deal and not "giving the money back to Africa"
That sentiment was echoed on a personal level by one of the strikers - Thandi Khlandkla: "They are benefiting, they are rich, we are poor, we are not benefiting. That's bull, we want our money."
But despite last-minute negotiations there was no sign of a settlement as kick off approached.
Elsewhere, several hundred guards walked off the job at Soccer City, the main World Cup stadium in Johannesburg.
There was no match there on Tuesday.
Police said they also have taken over security at stadiums in Durban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, where Portugal and Ivory Coast played to a 0-0 draw.
At issue is a wage dispute between the mostly black stewards and Stallion Security Consortium, a private, black-run company hired by World Cup organisers to provide stewards for five of the 10 venues.
The strikers said they were being offered from 126 rand (16.50 dollars, 13.40 euro) to 190 rand (25 dollars, 20 euro), for 12- to 15-hour shifts.
They were demanding at least 450 rand per day (59 dollars, 48 euro).
Strikers, wearing knit caps and gloves, accused the security company of mistreating them, feeding them only one meal during their shifts, with often rotten food.
They said many were unable to get home after getting off work late in the evening and were spending the night at bus and police stations in the frigid cold.
In Durban, some 2-thousand stewards protested over wages on Tuesday, calling on FIFA to confirm what they should earn for working at the tournament.
Most of the demonstrators left after a couple of hours when they were paid 205 rand (26.50 dollars, 21.50 euro) in exchange for turning in their orange stewards' bibs.

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