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Those students who did attend class had to cross picket lines--at the height of the strike, two-thirds of the student body observed the boycott...
...fact, The Crimson has picked up a copy of Lorenzo's "Guide to Excellence in Flight Attendants." If you don't mind crossing the picket lines, and you don't get airsick, you can master the following six skills and get a job at Continental with the greatest of ease...
Even so, Eastern's determination to keep planes in the air during the strike quickly unraveled as pilots refused to cross picket lines. Since he took over Eastern in 1986, the pilots charged, Lorenzo has systematically stripped the airline of its most valuable assets, leaving it too small and weak to compete...
...walkout by some 9,000 Eastern machinists, baggage handlers and other I.A.M. members was supported by thousands of Eastern pilots and flight attendants who refused to cross the picket lines. Determined to continue operating, Eastern said it had hired 1,100 accredited mechanics and 5,500 unskilled workers to fill in for baggage handlers and other ground-service workers. But without its pilots, Eastern was nearly paralyzed. In contrast to an average daily schedule of some 1,040 flights, on Saturday the airline managed to get only a few dozen jets into...
Eastern's 3,600 pilots pledged to honor the strike even though Lorenzo had appealed to them at midweek via a 20-minute video taped at his Houston home. Said Lorenzo: "If the pilots, the flight attendants and the noncontract employees support the picket line and don't show up for work, Eastern cannot survive." As the tape rolled, Lorenzo took out a new contract he was about to offer his pilots and signed...