calfo
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- Dec 4, 2001
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Flying at Continental, I've looked this issue square in the face for the last six years... most of the people on that list are dirtbags and deserve whatever happens to them - be it denied jumpseats, etc.
Then again, there are some people on that list that really don't deserve to be there, they almost got put there on a "technicality".
The guys that deserve to be on that list are the "superscabs" - the ones that crossed the line right away and kept Lorenzo in business. What about the ones that were hired, or crossed two years after that...? I dunno - two years later, the strike was essentially over and crossing the line didn't really mean anything at that point - yet they still made "The List".
And, listening to a superscab's story, to wit: "Continental was in the midst of giving pay concessions to Lorenzo to keep out of bankruptcy. ALPA (basically United) came to the Continental MEC and told them that they have to go on strike or else everybody else would have to take pay cuts to match." I dunno if that's what really happened, but in a conspiracy-theory sorta way, it sounds plausible. By the way, did anybody tell UAL to go on strike because it was bad for the rest of us? hmmmmm....?
The bottom line that I give guys I fly with is this, you f**cked up in 1983, but here's your chance to redeem yourself - bid all your vacation, and don't scab me, if I have to walk.
To tell you the truth, if I had two kids in college and a wife going through chemotherapy, I'm not sure what I'd do.
I hope I don't have to walk in those shoes... I think we all hope that.
Then again, there are some people on that list that really don't deserve to be there, they almost got put there on a "technicality".
The guys that deserve to be on that list are the "superscabs" - the ones that crossed the line right away and kept Lorenzo in business. What about the ones that were hired, or crossed two years after that...? I dunno - two years later, the strike was essentially over and crossing the line didn't really mean anything at that point - yet they still made "The List".
And, listening to a superscab's story, to wit: "Continental was in the midst of giving pay concessions to Lorenzo to keep out of bankruptcy. ALPA (basically United) came to the Continental MEC and told them that they have to go on strike or else everybody else would have to take pay cuts to match." I dunno if that's what really happened, but in a conspiracy-theory sorta way, it sounds plausible. By the way, did anybody tell UAL to go on strike because it was bad for the rest of us? hmmmmm....?
The bottom line that I give guys I fly with is this, you f**cked up in 1983, but here's your chance to redeem yourself - bid all your vacation, and don't scab me, if I have to walk.
To tell you the truth, if I had two kids in college and a wife going through chemotherapy, I'm not sure what I'd do.
I hope I don't have to walk in those shoes... I think we all hope that.