The union that handles baggage at Newark Airport is threatening to boycott Poland’s national airline if the situation regarding crosses recently placed near the site of the former Auschwitz death camp is not resolved. The announcement of the boycott, which would take effect March 1, occurred at a protest in New York City calling on the pope to intervene to bring down the crosses, which were erected last year by Catholic fundamentalists.
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