One: for all you folks on this page who are youngster...in 1983 all the replacement workers at Continental were branded as scabs and outcasts...wanna check their status now?
two: go read Pprune.org website postings about the reality of folks joining CX at the present time...and you'll see the other side of the picture
three I am in no way advocating scabbing, I passed up on the opportunity to work for CO in 1983...yes I did the interview and got hired...but please research the Cathay situation , it is not a strike, and there is no picket line, and the very CX pilots (minority by far) who are calling new joiners scabs, are tripping over themselves filling the Capt slots created by these same "49'ers) the pretend to be supporting...