…is the death, perhaps, of a company. Angered by the flagrant dishonesty of management, which concealed a scheme to protect the pensions of its top executives should the company go into bankruptcy, American Airlines’ flight attendants have scrapped their approval of the company’s rescue plan. They’re going to revote now. If AMR goes under, it’ll be management’s fault. You can’t treat working people like dirt and expect them to say, “Thank you sir, may I have another?”