Cardinal
Of The Kremlin
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Turbo, for the last time can we dispense with this notion that doctors are in the same league as airline pilots. It's doesn't even resemble the truth. Airline pilots may wear a white shirt but this is a blue-collar occupation. Line workers, doing the same task, over and over. Blue collar workers advance their lot through unionization. Don't delude yourself into thinking you are "above" a labor action. Strikes are what made your lofty position lofty. It didn't start out that way. Do me a favor and read Flying the Line II when you get a chance. It's wonderfully illustrative of what happens when pilots get too comfortable with their position.
As for discrimination, as has been said, it is ridiculous to compare crossing the line, which you have total control over, to something that is genetic, like race and skin color.
Crossing the line screws more than your pilot group. My father is a scab. And although I love him and treat him with respect and civility, I still hold it against him. He didn't "have" to cross that line, it was pure greed. In recompense he got f***ed by management for 14 years before he saw a decent contract. He also gave me his first name. Thus, my name, minus a roman numeral, was on that list before I could ride a bike. On that list are several father/son scab pairs, will I be trusted in the future? I don't know. Frankly, that burns me. Not that there is a list, but that my family should have it's reputation so blighted for his imperfect reasoning. His scabbing did eventually put him into a position to help finance my early flying. I love flying more than anything else, but others can't see that. If they put together the whole story they'll simply see the bastard son of a scab who had everything handed to him out of the mouths of an early 80s pilot group. A lovely picture, aint it? I've also had the pleasure of walking down a concourse with him, wondering how many inward scowls he generates among passing pilots.
The solution is not dispensing with that list. The solution is not scabbing in the first place.
You'll be happy to note that for the life of me I can't figure out where you scabbed. Since you're a Biscayne boy the logical assumption would be Eastern, but that doesn't make much sense as far as timing, it wasn't some backwater in the DC-3, like Wien Air Alaska or something?
YGBSM! In order to negotiate you have to have something to give, or something to take away, a bargaining chip. Pilots can only give their labor, which they do every day, and that labor is the only thing they can take away. Without that threat the MEC has no power to negotiate with! The willingness of scabs to jump in deteriorates that power, and power in negotiations gives that party results.
As for discrimination, as has been said, it is ridiculous to compare crossing the line, which you have total control over, to something that is genetic, like race and skin color.
Crossing the line screws more than your pilot group. My father is a scab. And although I love him and treat him with respect and civility, I still hold it against him. He didn't "have" to cross that line, it was pure greed. In recompense he got f***ed by management for 14 years before he saw a decent contract. He also gave me his first name. Thus, my name, minus a roman numeral, was on that list before I could ride a bike. On that list are several father/son scab pairs, will I be trusted in the future? I don't know. Frankly, that burns me. Not that there is a list, but that my family should have it's reputation so blighted for his imperfect reasoning. His scabbing did eventually put him into a position to help finance my early flying. I love flying more than anything else, but others can't see that. If they put together the whole story they'll simply see the bastard son of a scab who had everything handed to him out of the mouths of an early 80s pilot group. A lovely picture, aint it? I've also had the pleasure of walking down a concourse with him, wondering how many inward scowls he generates among passing pilots.
The solution is not dispensing with that list. The solution is not scabbing in the first place.
As for Delta, they signed a contract similar to every pilot group in the country, pledging not to strike for four years. I think the boys from Atlanta would not take kindly to being called a scab by a scab. An illegal strike is dumb, and doesn't work, see PATCO.
You'll be happy to note that for the life of me I can't figure out where you scabbed. Since you're a Biscayne boy the logical assumption would be Eastern, but that doesn't make much sense as far as timing, it wasn't some backwater in the DC-3, like Wien Air Alaska or something?
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