What if???????????

[414Flyer]

I promise not to lose interest in their privates.

 

[Dizel8]

DJS,

When you threaten to scab, you get what you deserve, simple as that!

 

[bart]

When you threaten to scab, you get what you deserve, simple as that!

What do you call Air Traffic Controllers these days?

Seems you work with them every day and they didn't hold solid with their brothers and sisters...

Just curious...

 

[enigma]

What do you call Air Traffic Controllers these days?

Seems you work with them every day and they didn't hold solid with their brothers and sisters...

Just curious...

Bart, First, you know that PATCO did not have the legal right to strike. When they choose to do so, they legally gave up their job. Quite a different situation from one where the workers have that right and do so after following a legal process. So the current controllers are not scabs who came in and took a job from a striker, they took jobs from no one, because the previous job holders had given the jobs up.

Truthfully, ALPA doesn't really care about scabs, only individual pilots care. ALPA has already put their flag firmly in the camp of the pilots with money. If that camp happens to hold a few scabs, ALPA could apparently care less.

Let me try and answer the question, the controllers are representatives of the Federal government. I have no choice in the matter, even if they were full fledged scabs I would not be able to do anything about it. But since I don't consider them to be scabs, it doesn't matter. PATCO should not have struck. They should have worked with the system in place at the time, in order to effect the change they sought.

As you should know, I'm not a staunch union card carrier, but unions are legal. We work in a system that both sides have agreed to; the union doesn't hold any more of a gun to managements head than they do to ours. While I would almost never call for a strike, I can not fathom the selfishness that would convince a scab to move in and take a job from someone who had negotiated for years in good faith in an attempt to improve the job. I just can't find any way to justify the actions of a scab.

regards,
enigma