Originally Posted by
Ottopilot
Not enough sick time to avoid them when I was a 757 FO. My FO seniority lined up perfect with scab CA seniority. If I was Native American, I would be called "flys with scabs."
A scab is someone who ... accepts less than union wages. The main thing to do is not be their friend. Kinda a sterile cockpit inflight and no hanging out at the layover.
That's a new twist on the definition.
As you know, our Union's President (Prater, or was it Woerth ?) welcomed the Continental scabs back into the Union with cake and a party. Didn't seem to bug him too much.
I have flown with one scab. He was a miserable SOB, in fact the only pilot I've not gotten along with in nearly 25 years of flying multi crew aircraft. He later tuned over a new leaf, got back into ALPA and served well as a Committee Chair. Turned out to be a good guy in the long run.