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Teamsters, CWA form airline customer service alliance
September 16, 2005The Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters today announced a proposed alliance to jointly represent passenger service agents at US Airways when the merger of America West and US Airways is completed....
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World Notes
September 16, 2005Canada: Locked-out media workers Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) workers, locked out since Aug. 15, are gaining solidarity in Canada and beyond. On Sept. 6, reporters and editors at Canadian Press and Broadcast News held a byline...
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Major party being iced out in Haiti elections
September 16, 2005With the first round of elections set to begin in about eight weeks, Haiti is still not ready to hold free and fair multiparty elections. More than half of Haiti’s population remains unregistered to vote. Further,...
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Japans Koizumi wins election victory
September 16, 2005Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) gained a election victory in the Sept. 11 general election by capturing 296 seats in the 480-seat lower house of parliament. Coupled with the 31 seats...
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U.S. denies visa to Cuban leader
September 16, 2005The U.S. government announced Sept. 2 that Ricardo Alarcon, president of the Cuban National Assembly, would not be granted a visa to attend the second conference of parliamentary presidents held by the Inter-Parliamentary Union Sept. 7-9...
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