The anxiety showed in the faces of the flight attendants last week as they checked the bulletin board in the Eastern Air Lines office at Miami International Airport. Posted was a list of the names of people losing their jobs. As part of a major cost-cutting program, the financially strapped airline had just announced that it would furlough 1,010 of its 7,200 flight attendants. Said Wilfred Tirado, seeing his name: "I have a $763 monthly mortgage and a two-month-old son. Now what am I going to do?" In other airports, 23,000 additional Eastern workers, including reservations clerks and ticket takers, learned...
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