Airline Pilot Blacklisting

For any of you who didn't believe what I said about blacklisting in the airline industry, here's some proof.

http://www.box.net/shared/ay9un0uo0w

This link actually mentions a man named Frank Lorenzo. This man was notorious for driving airlines into bankruptcy exactly for the purpose of absolving the labor contracts and making his own. He was the CEO of Continental Airlines in the early eighties after taking it over with his holding company, Texas Air. Prior to 1984, companies had the right to permanently remove labor contracts while in chapter 11 and create brand new ones without much that the pilots union could do to stop it. The union at Continental went on strike, but Frank Lorenzo hired new pilots and simply replaced the striking pilots with "scabs." The individuals who crossed the picket line to go to work endured vandalism of their private property, death threats, beatings, and even parcel bombs. Every pilot that worked for Lorenzo during this time period was permanently labeled a scab and their names were recorded in a little black book that airline pilots carried for years to come. Stories exist of pilots asking the captain of a departing flight if they could catch a ride in the jumpseat, only to have the captain ask their name, search his little black book of scabs, and tell them to take a cab after he spots it on the list.