The 1983 pilot strike against CAL was a couple of years before my hire date at an ALPA carrier. However, when the strike happened, I was flying corporate jets out of IAH (Houston Intercontinental Airport). Living and working in Houston, I knew a lot of the striking CAL pilots. But I can't remember the timelines with respect to the other labor groups and their subsequent work actions against CAL.
However, I do remember some idiocracy on the part of a (very) few CAL ALPA pilots. They built pipe bombs with the idea of assassinating Frank Lorenzo, and the plot was intercepted by the FBI. They went to prison.
Lorenzo (TI, CAL, EAL, Peoples Xpress, NYAir, etc) was an industry pariah and, along with Steven Wolf (AA, CAL, NWA, USAirways, and maybe others) and Robert Crandall (AA and father of the B-Scale), Lorenzo ruined the airline industry. I missed Lorenzo and Crandall, but I had the extreme displeasure of working under Steven Wolf (an arrogant, elitist prick).
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