Eighteen. That’s the number of workers who will be jobless when US carrier American Airlines outsources its local operations to Airport Services Antigua, beginning November 1.

Indications at the time of going to press were that disgruntled employees of the Free Trade and Processing Zone will return to work today after two straight days of strike action.

Antigua Commercial Bank (ACB) is threatening legal action against trade unionist Stafford Joseph over his quoted remarks in The Daily OBSERVER’s front page story of last week Thursday, August 12.