Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pilots do not come back to work, Eastern Airlines is gone," company attorney David Ross said. He warned during a court hearing that Eastern was faced with bankruptcy without its 3600 pilots, who have refused to cross picket lines the Machinists union set up Saturday...
MIAMI--Eastern Airlines warned its pilots they risked their future by honoring picket lines in the two-day-old machinists strike, which has cut flights drastically, stranded weary passengers at airports and threatened to expand into a nationwide transportation snarl...
Eastern pilots, who virtually shut down the money-losing carrier by honoring picket lines of the striking machinists union, are risking not only their careers but "the very existence" of the airline, said Robin Matell, a spokesperson for Eastern...
...members try to cross picket lines, Yule said, "they could get their heads bashed in, they could get their cars turned over, they could get their families threatened...
...Atlanta, the Rev. Jesse Jackson urged President Bush to intervene and vowed to join machinists on the picket line this morning...