Ground staff have called a one-day strike amid an ongoing pay dispute with the airline.
His wife, who is French, subsequently lost her ground staff job with an airline.
My member of ground staff was not amused, but ignorant of obstetrics she lacked any reasonable counter-suggestions.
For ground staff, contributions would rise from 5.25% to 10% and for air crew from 6.5% to 11.25%.
"It arrived OK, the check was OK and it left OK, " said a member of Gulf Air's ground staff.
The union representing ground staff accepted a 5.1% pay rise this year and a 2.3% increase from July 2009.
Unions representing ground staff and cabin crews voted to hold a six days of stoppages on 14 and 17-21 December.
Sabena cancelled most of its flights on Tuesday after ground staff in Brussels staged a walk-out in protest over rumours of the bankruptcy decision.
At Tannadice, a frozen area of the pitch in front of the Shed end was concerning ground staff and officials and after a third inspection their game against the Accies was called off.
Lufthansa, which said that demand on its Asian routes has fallen by as much as 85% thanks to SARS, has said it will ground 15 more planes and reduce working hours for ground staff.
The Premier League club, who qualified for Europe via the fair play table, have been looking for an alternative venue after the club's ground staff warned the board that the pitch would not be ready to hold a match so early.
BA. Cosseted by bail-outs and perks that included free flights for their children's nannies, the pilots have gone on strike several times over attempts to impose on them deals similar to those accepted by ground staff, whose pay was cut in 1994.
But an exceptionally dry surface started to show signs of wear after just a couple of overs, courtesy of Peter Siddle's bustling footmarks, and by lunch repairs usually made much later in a Test match were being carried out by the ground staff.
Some of the eight masked assailants stood in front of the Helvetic Airways jet plane with machine guns, pointing laser sights at the pilots inside the cockpit while others forced ground staff to open the plane's cargo doors, according to Belgian prosecutors and other people familiar with the events.
"We're pleased the company has put forward a new offer to the unions, however the content will need to be considered by the bargaining groups for ground support staff and check-in workers, " said TGWU chief negotiator Brendan Gould.
The authority for implementing these steps lies with BaFin, Germany's bank supervisor (which is assisted on the ground by Bundesbank staff).
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And Germany's Lufthansa, whose ground crew and cabin staff are on strike over pay, fell 3%.
So in the case of Clear Capital, the company has its market analytics department, but it also boasts an on-the-ground in-house staff that crunches tens of thousands of real-time valuation reports across the country, looking at everything from broker price opinions to appraisals.
The Glastonbury legend relates to Joseph of Arimathea who planted his staff into the ground at Wearyall Hill in Glastonbury, which sprouted into the Holy Thorn.
Our focus is on ensuring we have the resources, the tools, to create and build the biggest grassroots campaign in history, and that means putting staff on the ground, opening offices, being able to do what we know this campaign is going to be about, which is reaching voters in the key target states.
And a very small number of White House staff were on the ground prior to him getting there.
"A mutually convenient time and agreed upon ground rules can be discussed with your staff, " Thompson said in his letter to the president.
In terms of scaling back, we are absolutely -- our focus is on making sure we have the resources to open offices, keep not only hired staff but volunteers on the ground.
For a U.S. venture firm to succeed in China, Robinson points out that it takes local staff and on-the-ground market intelligence.
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Later in the day, the Administrator will visit the communities of Rockaway, Broad Channel and Breezy Point in Queens, NY, to meet with FEMA staff working on-the-ground to register disaster survivors for financial assistance.
The National Gallery of Scotland was closed by a security staff strike, while only the ground floors of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, the Scottish Portrait Gallery and the Dean Gallery were open.
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They know that politically, the NHS is well nigh untouchable - and that if you are going to dare suggest it needs a prod and a poke if not a good makeover, you'd better be ready to prepare the ground with a liberal dose of praise for NHS staff first.
We wanted you to know that we stand ready to lend the authority of our experience as ground combat commanders to you, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and others in making the case against the clearly defective landmine treaty now taking shape in Oslo.
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United's players and staff held a minute's silence at the training ground on Friday morning.
Some games had already been called off on Friday - while Wycombe appealed to fans to help staff grit the car park and roads leading to the ground, and clear them of snow and ice.
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