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Some Dude said:What's your best "I had to fly with a scab" story? We have a few at my employer. They have a thousand excuses for their actions (none are good).
as214 said:Ive never knowingly flown with a, scab!! When I was an FO at Comair though, a guy came up to the cockpit looking for a jumpseat..This was about a month before we went on strike.. He introduced himself to the Captain and myself.. THe Captain looked at the guys ID, checked his scab list and then presto the guy was on it.. The Captain said " Get off my plane you greedy scab bastard".. The scab then got all emotional and threatened to tell his company (Continental)!! It's sad that a scab like that could hold a high seniority number in one of the better Major airlines out there!
OleGuy said:With ALPA's track record there is no longer a long term career problem with being a scab. Like it or not...It's the truth. Look at all the money we spent on Continential and strike assessments, and then look at all the money we spent to get them BACK after they were successfull. ALPA is interested in just one thing...dues. How many Eastern scabs are employed today at major airlines...lots.
flybrowntails said:i get it--this is a thread about "i knew this guy/gal who was a scab but he was a great pilot, great person, community leader an overall a-okay joe."
OleGuy said:How many Eastern scabs are employed today at major airlines...lots.
Yank McCobb said:What this thread truly is about is that you can take a cross-section of society...any part of it, including aviation and even that part of aviation known as "scabs"...and find the same results. Good people, bad people, competent people, incompetent people, those with drug and alcohol problems, those without, etc. And you can also find people willing to hurl stones at any part of it and blame all of their problems on someone else.
Tram said:My dad - had a family, was tryinig to put his kids through private school, etc.. My dad didn't cross the line..
I was a young kid when Eastern happened, but I have learned alot from the people who were involved..
Scabs are worthless....
Tram said:The local eastern scab, "had a family, he was trying to put his kids through private school, had a car payment" yadda yadda yadda..
My dad - had a family, was tryinig to put his kids through private school, etc.. My dad didn't cross the line..
I was a young kid when Eastern happened, but I have learned alot from the people who were involved..
Scabs are worthless....
Tram said:My dad didn't cross the line..
Tram said:I was a young kid when Eastern happened, but I have learned alot from the people who were involved..
Tram said:Scabs are worthless....
GVFlyer said:I researched pre-deregulation pay scales - back when there was a Civil Aeronautics board. In 1978, the most senior captains at PanAm were making $175,000 dollars and were working about 14 days a month. That would be over $900k in today's dollars and everyone knows what today's duty rigs are like. So, there has been a constant erosion of pay, benefits and quality of life at the airlines.
The South American (SA) routes were originally Grace Airways which was bought by Pan Am. Pan Am rename it PANAGRA (Pan American Grace Airways). Pan Am was force to sell PANAGRA because the US government said PA had a monopoly on SA. PA sold them to Braniff.Boeingman said:Speaking of dear old Dad...was he one of the Eastern guys instrumental in keeping the Braniff pilots off the EAL seniority list when Eastern acquired all those South American Braniff routes? Funny how that came full circle to bite many of us at CAL as almost all the original scabs in early 83 were disgruntled ex-ALPA Braniff pilots.
Boeingman said:How did Dad feel watching his loyal ALPA brethren at Delta trip over themselves to pick up additional flying in ATL when Eastern was on strike?
Boeingman said:I know how I felt watching the Eastern guys racing across our lines in IAH picking up our loss of revenue when Eastern had a crew base there. Was your father one of those loyal ALPA members picking up our lost flying back then?
Boeingman said:Speaking of dear old Dad...was he one of the Eastern guys instrumental in keeping the Braniff pilots off the EAL seniority list when Eastern aquired all those South AMerican Braniff routes?
Boeingman said:You sound like you still have a lot to learn.
Boeingman said:I spent 25 months on a picket line.