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Flight attendants’ union: We may refuse to board Boeing 737 Max 8
March 13, 2019American Airlines told maintenance staff to "strike a balance between safety and productivity." Unions are telling the airline CEOs to do the right thing and "put people over profits.”
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Flight attendants’ union calls for grounding Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes
March 12, 2019“This is about public confidence in the safety of air travel,” said Sara Nelson, AFA president.
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Trump’s national emergency declaration not justified by the facts
February 15, 2019Trump has been so desperate to fund his signature campaign promise that he’s gone so far as to shut down the government over it for over a month, which caused federal employees to suffer and billions...
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Scandinavian sketches: This is what social democracy looks like
December 20, 2017The Scandinavian model is the highest expression of democracy that capitalism offers in the world today.
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Seeing socialist Cuba with a critical eye
November 16, 2017I sought to experience Cuba in a way that would absolve me of the charge of red romanticism. What I found instead was a people bound together by a Cuban identity forged by the revolution.
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