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Flight attendants fight strike ban

November 10, 2006

MINNEAPOLIS — (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...

THIS WEEK IN LABOR

November 10, 2006

Goodyear 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,...

WORLD NOTES

November 10, 2006

Uruguay: 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...

European youth defend democracy

November 10, 2006

In the aftermath of the official banning of the communist youth league in the Czech Republic, and in defiance of that ban, 15 European communist youth groups met in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic, Oct....

First in nation: Oakland OKs oil independence by 2020

November 10, 2006

OAKLAND, Calif. — In an action with far-reaching implications for improving air quality, curbing global warming, growing the “green economy” and developing well-paying jobs for urban workers, Oakland’s City Council voted Oct. 17 to develop a...