Mine is Eastern Airlines.
Mine is Eastern Airlines."
What people don't realize is that Eastern Airlines actually chose the union. The CEO of Eastern in the 1950s, Eddy Rickenbacker (very famous WWI Ace- highest number of German planes shot down by an American), recognized that Eastern was going to be unionized, so he did his research and chose what he considered to be the best union and approached them. Well, the years go by, people change, and the rest is history.
On a side issue, he was conservative and in the 1930s he actively opposed Pres Roosevelt to a degree that NBC censored Rickenbacker's comments about the President.