Word: easterners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impossible to answer this question without destroying two myths about Frank Lorenzo, Eastern Airlines and the machinists' strike...
...giving you all the information--editorials, ads and news articles. As an editorial staff, we would advise you not to fly Eastern. As a newspaper, we'll run the company's ads--and leave it up to you to decide...
WHEN Professor Anna Chave announced that students should take advantage of Eastern Airlines $12 fares to visit New York's Museum of Modern Art, some students in "Modern Art and Abstraction" cried out in protest. When The Crimson continued to run Eastern Airlines advertisement throughout the machinists strike, some Crimson editors attempted to pull the ads. Why? Why does the act of flying Eastern Airlines anger so many students...
Myth number one: crossing the picket line and riding Eastern Airlines is not a political act. The fact is that when you fly Eastern Shuttle to New York, you are making a $29 donation to Frank Lorenzo's fund to bust the machinists. The strike is extremely expensive for Lorenzo, and for Texas Air, of which Lorenzo is chair. Eastern, before the strike, was losing $1 million per day. Now its losses are enormous...
Before the strike, Lorenzo was selling off Eastern's assets in order to keep the airline in service. Now Lorenzo, under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code, cannot sell assets without the approval of a Federal bankruptcy judge, and his sale of the Eastern Air Shuttle to Donald Trump is stalled. Lorenzo can draw on the assets of Continental Airlines and Texas Air to keep up the fight, but you can be sure that every $29 you give to Lorenzo goes straight into the unionbusting side. Every passenger must ask him or herself, in the words of the famous union...