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...Bowles is charging in a lawsuit filed last Thursday that a Boeing 747 cargo plane owned by AFX was temporarily turned into a ticking time bomb by faulty and deceptive maintenance practices. The target of the suit is Evergreen Air Center, a midsize maintenance and storage facility in Marana, Ariz...
...drilled a hole in the wrong place in a flap track on the left wing, creating a serious flight-safety risk by weakening the entire track. (The flap track supports one of the four flaps on the plane, a critical flight surface.) In another case, also described in the lawsuit, Evergreen was instructed to inspect and lubricate the flap carriage on the wing. (Lubrication is an essential flight-safety issue: failure to lubricate an internal part properly is thought to be the leading cause of the Alaska Airlines crash.) On Dec. 15, Evergreen told AFX that both tasks had been...
...task of reinventing the music industry has fallen heavily on the shoulders of German media executive Hilbers. Last month he left BMG, the music branch at Bertelsmann AG, to run the lawsuit-plagued music site Napster. Before joining BMG, Hilbers, 38, spent four years managing AOL Europe, a property of TIME's parent company. Now he will try to transform Napster from industry rogue to copyright-respecting subscription service...
...clerk and working her way up to manager, where she earned $1,770 a month. "We thought the cutbacks would affect smaller stores in the provinces," Belamire says. "When it was announced that it was all the stores, it was really a shock." Employees filed a lawsuit against Marks & Spencer, claiming that they received insufficient notice of dismissal and also that the company violated French workplace law by notifying them by e-mail, rather than in a staff meeting. "At 49 years old, it's hard to find anything on the job market," says Belamire. "I'll never find another...
...Some of these stories will soon be heard by a jury. On June 20, the Washington-based International Labor Rights Fund (ilrf) filed a lawsuit in the United States on behalf of 11 Acehnese men and women who say they were tortured or beaten by soldiers from the A-13 military base, located on the road connecting ExxonMobil's facilities and the city of Lhokseumawe. The troops in that camp are paid out of funds the company provides as part of its agreement with the Indonesian government. The group plans to argue that the company is liable under the centuries...