Originally Posted by hindsight2020

My thoughts exactly. No dog in the fight, but every time I read these viscerally agitated fighting words about the concept of scabs, I keep getting mental images of the regional airline industry as a whole. Why that's considered an invalid correlation, is beyond illogical to me.

The Hunger Games that is our labor market is not confined to just airline labor dynamics. Furthermore, the legitimacy of unions within the umbrella of an RLA framework is heel-clicking at best. Why then do military retirees, independently wealthy or spousal-subsidized regional hobby pilots not considered scabs? The net effect is the same. Hell, many would do it part-time if they could. I'm not advocating anybody cross a picket line, I'm just saying I would like to see a rational even-tempered argument for why these things are different. Otherwise it reeks of people embittered about describing the water that is the Hunger Games, which defines us as a labor pool.

As to the guy crossing a picket line to keep his kid's meds affordable, yeah that's a policy problem we created as a Country. I wouldn't crucify the guy for a non-choice that we ALL created by tolerating it politically (non-universal health care and employer-tied subsidy) because we're 'Muricans and hypocrites that believe that my entitlements are earned rights but your entitlements are welfare. Healthcare is the weakest argument with which I could attempt to crucify a scab.