[QUOTE=Sunvox;1650936]So you have a son in college and one night he gets with his buds and they break out the cocaine and he decides to "give it a try" and the cops show up and bust him.

Do you ever forgive him? Is he ever accepted back into society after his one bad choice? Does prison time afford him a "reset"?

I was hired at United Airlines in 1996. I read "Hard Landing" and "Flying the Line". I think 570s are windbags full of themselves. I would never cross a picket line, but . . .


I am a Christian and I believe in Forgiveness. How do pilots justify hating somebody for their whole life when the offense occurred decades earlier? Is there ever a chance or way for a "scab" to be accepted back into the fold? If you make a choice when you are 25 are you marked for life like Hester Prynne? Isn't hating somebody 25 years after their offense a type of prejudice?


I know . . . now I'm a "scab lover" and subject to the same vilification, but that's ok because I'm a

Scabs undermine everything pilots are fighting for. By scabbing, they show the company that there is a chance to undermine solidarity.

I do wish there was more education concerning what unions are fighting for, and why. I seem to frequently get comments like, "If they don't want the job, then why don't they leave"?

Look at what the regional pilots are getting paid, and then think about "Whay are we fighting"?