Boeing strikers see no reason for takeaways
Over 18,000 aircraft workers in Seattle, Portland, Ore., and Wichita, Kan., hit the picket lines Sept. 2 rather than accept takeaways insisted on by Boeing Corporation. The company took in $1.87 billion in profits last year, International Association of Machinists spokesperson Connie Kelliher told the World.
Labor Day in Pittsburgh with the PWW
We had a great Labor Day Parade — with all the unions, including SEIU and the Teamsters. In all, about 65,000 union members march in the ’Burgh. Pittsburgh is usually the third largest Labor Day Parade, behind New York and Detroit. This year we edged out Detroit!
Posada tries to evade extradition
EL PASO, Texas — Luis Posada Carriles, an anti-Cuba terrorist who is facing deportation from the United States, has withdrawn his petition for political asylum but reportedly still hopes to either remain in the U.S. or be deported to El Salvador, his last known place of residence.
Caravan: Iraq war diverts needed resources
Cindy Sheehan and several dozen other Gold Star family members, military families and veterans closed up their Crawford, Texas, encampment last week and fanned out in three whistle-stop tours across the nation, headed to the nation’s capital with the message, “No more lies, bring the troops home now.” They will join thousands expected in Washington, D.C., for a national Bring Them Home Now rally Sept. 24 and congressional lobbying Sept. 26, where they will press lawmakers to put a stop to the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
Too little, too late on hurricane response
WASHINGTON — Recovery workers began the grisly search for the dead in the flooded streets of New Orleans as Mayor C. Ray Nagin predicted that the toll from Hurricane Katrina may reach 10,000, the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. click here for Spanish text
