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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...
Myth number two: the machinists' demands are unreasonable and the wage concessions which Lorenzo wants are in the long-term best interests of the airline. The fact is that Lorenzo does not care about Eastern's survival, nor about his employees' jobs. This is why they hate him and call him the "AIDS of the working people," among other things...
...Lorenzo has been selling off Eastern's most important assets ever since he acquired the airline in 1986. Lorenzo has been using the revenue from the sale of Eastern assets to fund the expansion of Continental Airlines, which he also owns, and whose unions he broke in 1983. As you may have noticed, Lorenzo has been expanding Continental's flight schedule, most recently adding five new flights to Atlanta...
...LORENZO clearly wants to destroy Eastern Airlines. As Roy H. Anderson, General Chair of District 100 of the International Association of Machinists, said, "This is the first time in history that labor unions have gone on strike against the employer to save their own company...
...does Lorenzo want to destroy Eastern, the seventh largest carrier in the United States, or at least reduce it to a shell of its current self? Lorenzo answered this question himself when he bought Eastern in 1986, "We're going to paint the tails of the airplanes and move them over to Continental...