Eastern will drop union leaders from its board.
Sources close to Texas Air Corp., the new parent of Eastern Airlines, said two outspoken union leaders were not renominated as directors when the board conferred privately on Tuesday following shareholder approval of the $676-million merger. The inclusion of union leaders Charles E. Bryan and Robert V. Callahan on Eastern’s 18-seat board was the result of a 1984 labor agreement. Eastern declined to comment on the composition of the new board, saying it had not been decided.
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