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Flight attendants fight strike ban
November 10, 2006MINNEAPOLIS — (PAI) A Minnesota federal bankruptcy judge on Oct. 23 banned the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA from starting “chaos” at a Northwest Airlines feeder, Mesaba Airlines. “CHAOS stands for Create Havoc Around Our System” and...
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Workers not at fault in BPs deadly blast
November 10, 2006Chemical board blames corporate cost-cutting Agreeing with the Steelworkers union and strongly rejecting company claims of workers’ guilt, the federal government’s chemical safety investigations board threw the book at British Petroleum on Oct. 31 over the...
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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
November 10, 2006Goodyear tires — how safe? Tire-making is a highly skilled job, but Goodyear is now using “replacement workers” and managers to run its plants. Its 12,000 workers in the U.S. and Canada, members of the USW,...
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WORLD NOTES
November 10, 2006Uruguay: Ibero-American Summit takes U.S. to task Meeting in Montevideo, Nov. 4-5, foreign ministers and chief executives from 22 countries turned the 17th Ibero-American Summit into a veritable rally against the Bush administration. The delegates called...
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Sandinistas claim election victory in Nicaragua
November 10, 2006NewsAnalysis At press time, with 91 percent of the vote tallied, former Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front claimed victory over his closest rival, U.S. favorite Eduardo Montealegre of the National Liberal...
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