Union Boycotts Lebanese Airline
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From Reuters
NEW YORK — Workers at Kennedy International Airport will not unload baggage or clean planes of Lebanon’s Middle East Airlines to protest the seizure of American hostages, the head of their 5,000-member union said today.
The boycott began Tuesday night and management employees were forced to unload a flight from Beirut. Mel Brackett, whose Transport Workers Union launched a boycott of Iranian goods during the 1979 hostage crisis, said he is trying to get other labor groups and businesses to take similar steps against Lebanon.
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