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Hey PCL you did not answer this part "So as a former dues paying union member who finds himself unemployed and takes a job at a great non-union company I am now a leach? Is that close to being a SCAB?"
How about what ALPA did to the EAL F/E's in the machainist union when they went out on strike. ALPA said, hey don't worry we can fill those seats from our union. Screw our brothers in that other union.
I flew with the ex EAL F/E's on the L-188 at Transamerican, that is not the story I was told on those long flights years ago. They said because they did not come over when first offered, they were later told too bad! you have been replaced. At Transamerican the piltos were aLPA, and the F/E's Teamsters, I asked him how come you guys don't go over to ALPA, WOW! I never asked that question again.Wow, you're going way back on that one. This happened in the 50s or 60s if I remember right. At the time, flight engineers had their own union called the Flight Engineers International Association (FEIA). ALPA was concerned about having members of two different unions with different priorities and different goals working together on the same flight deck. It was causing problems with crew members butting heads, and ALPA was worried about it affecting safety. ALPA wanted to represent the flight engineers also, but the FE's wanted their own union and didn't seem to care about the problems that ALPA addressed with having different unions represented on the same flight deck. Having given the FE's the opportunity to join ALPA and get rid of their own union, and FEs refusing, ALPA felt that there was no way to work with these guys. It seemed that continual conflict was inevitable. So when the FEs went on strike, ALPA made the decision to negotiate with management for all flight deck positions to be ALPA positions, including that of the FE. Of course, this killed FEIA, but ALPA accepted all FEIA members into ALPA, just as they tried to get the FEIA members to do from the beginning.
ALPA needs an overhaul and until they get their act together, they are not getting a dime from me.
PCL-128,
I believe that ALPA national had a strike by their office workers a few years back. I think they were going to go around that union and hire non-union office workers. It was simple poetry.
NO, they most certainly were not. I never heard a single mention of office SCABs during the short strike of the staff. In fact, Duane and Jalmer went out of their way to be respectful to the striking staffers. The offices shut down during the strike. A reasonable compromise was made on their contract, and they returned to work quickly. It was a perfect example of how labor relations should work.