Union Boycotts Lebanese Airline
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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