, dks28@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: > former employee of Eastern Airlines. > I knew lots of them and you may be surprised how many felt that they could not work for the company that Lorenzo had created---the conditions were that bad. Also most of them got jobs--maybe took them a few years to get back up to their former pay scales but if EAL had survived most of them would have been fired or taken 50% pay cuts anyway. Most were sorry to see their airline close up but consider it totally managements fault - not theirs. Dennis (PS I walked the picket line at EAL in Boston many times--Swissair where I worked was also in the IAM and a strike like this is the Union striking the Company and all IAM members supported the union as the outcome could effect all of us regardless of which company we worked at.)