
Issue No 111		14 September 2001

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US Flight Crews Support Ansett Workers

Stranded crew members from United Airline flights attended today's Ansett rally in Sydney in support of their Australian colleagues.


	US Airline Union Members express their Solidarity with Ansett Workers

The workers, many of whom had lost friends in Tuesday's terrorist attack, attended the Sydney rally with members of the Flight Attendants Association of Australia.

They heard a message of sympathy read by FAAA member - and former Ansett employee - Narelle Gill. It read:

As the rally is aware, on Tuesday, 11 September 2001, America was the subject of terrorist attacks using commercial airlines and innocent personnel. These attacks resulted in significant loss of life and destruction.

In addition to the personal contact made with those representing out sister and brother union, our union wrote to Ms Pat Friend, President, Association of Flight Attendants, Ms Linda Farrow, President United MEC and John Robertson Ward, President Association of Professional Flight Attendants in America in the following terms:

"It is with extreme sadness that we write to express our deepest sympathy to your country, its people and members of your Association that have lost their lives in this dreadful act of violence.

The Flight Attendants' Association of Australia sends out sympathy to you at this time and offers out support in any way we can.

Our FAAA Employee Assistance Councillors have been in touch with the United Airlines crew overnight in Australia. While it is extremely difficult to think of any practical assistance we can provide members of American Airlines, we nonetheless stand ready to assist you in any way we can.

It is incomprehensible to even begin to understand how you are approaching this situation for your members however; our thoughts are with you at this time.

Yours sincerely

Colin Coakley

Divisional Secretary

FAAA"

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Issue 111 contents

Interview: Amidst the Debris
ACTU President Sharan Burrow surveys the wreckage from a week that rocked the world.

Politics: Consequences of Empire
The horror of the events in New York has not led to all American and international observers feeling committed to bloody revenge.

Industrial: Grounded
Ansett workers lay bare their feelings at seeing their company driven into oblivion.

International: Election Results from East Timor
Fretelin as expected has topped the poll in East Timor�s first free democratic election and the violence predicted by some has not eventuated.

E-Change: 3.2 The Electronic Consumerist
In their latest instalment Peter Lewis and Michael Gadiel ask how effective has the law become in safeguarding the things that really matter to us?

Legal: Howard's Falkland War
Zoe Reynolds chronicles the bizarre tale of the Tampa and how a group of refugees bacame pawns in a bigger political game.

Compo: Round Two Begins
Nancy Searle reviews the Sheahan Report and highlights some of the areas of concern to injured workers.

Economics: Knowledge, Power, Banking
Raj Patel questions whether a new World Bank initiative is actually designed to control the way the Third World thinks.

Review: Political Theatre
The Naked Theatre Company is a youthful, adventurous, professional, Sydney theatre company committed to the development and production of Australian playwrights.

Satire: Howard US Visit "Marginally Overshadowed"
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has said his US trip was a complete success, if slightly upstaged towards the middle.

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