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...bright side. Nobody pretended that al-Qaeda was finished. But there was quite recently a sense that it might be capable of only relatively small-scale, opportunistic attacks against "soft" Western targets, especially outside the U.S. This year's attacks on German tourists in Tunisia and French contract workers in Pakistan fit that pattern...
Flight attendants at Southwest work as many as 150 hours a month, compared with 80 hours at many other airlines, says union president Thom McDaniel. Southwest attendants are required by contract to "make a reasonable effort to tidy the airplane" between flights, a chore that other major airlines pay contractors to do. According to an airline labor expert, senior flight attendants at United get as many as 52 vacation days (compared with 35 days for veterans at Southwest). And they never have to clean up after the passengers...
When the union that represents Southwest's pilots told members to reject the company's contract offer, Southwest pilots rebelled. "The industry--and the economy--is going to hell, and I'm supposed to vote against?" scoffed veteran pilot Tracy Price. "The union was out of touch. I took the raise." Two-thirds of the pilots voted in September to accept management's offer. They voted the union leadership out of office last week, in large part because of its unrealistic stance on wages...
Christine Jolls, professor of employment and contract law at Harvard Law School, countered that the market had failed and laws were necessary to eradicate discrimination...
Woodlock seemed close to agreeing with the government that Harvard had indeed broken its contract...