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Strike ballots go to United flight attendants

December 10, 2004

Strike authorization ballots were mailed Dec. 2 to 21,000 flight attendants at United Airlines, setting the stage for a potential nationwide “CHAOS” strike should United or any other contracted carrier abrogate its collective bargaining agreement with...

Caregivers demand voice in patient care

December 10, 2004

Some 7,000 nurses, food service staff, housekeepers, clerks, lab technicians and other health care workers at 13 northern California Sutter hospitals returned to their jobs Dec. 6 after the company had locked them out for four...

International notes

December 10, 2004

Chile: Pinochet faces new probe The Court of Appeal Dec. 2 stripped former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet of legal immunity in connection with the 1974 murder of Gen. Carlos Prats, who preceded him as army chief....

Ibero-American summit: Cuba is not alone

December 10, 2004

Many of the resolutions passed at the 14th Ibero-American summit ending Nov. 26 in San Jose, Costa Rica, were of special significance for Cuba. The fact that positions introduced or backed by the Cuban delegation gained...

New law aims to destabilize North Korea

December 10, 2004

President Bush recently signed the “North Korea Human Rights Act of 2004” (NKHRA), which earmarks over $23 million dollars a year for what many see as interference in the internal affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic...