Originally Posted by
Airbum
I haven't read all of this thread so forgive me if I am repeating what others have said.
TP, It would seem to me that if ALPA pilots performed the job of a Flight engineer for Eastern then that would be doing struck work. If the ALPA Eastern pilot performed a job ( like being a pilot not a flight engineer ) then that would not be performing struck work.
Haven't there been times when say the Flight Attendants went on strike but the pilots did not. The pilots flying the plane did not scab unless they became Flight Attendants.
Some unions go so far as to not cross other union's legal picket lines. This is to show support and not necessarily out of concern for becoming a scab.
You're right, Airbum..
During the 1993 American Airlines APFA Flight Attendant strike, the pilots continued to fly at the APFA's request. While using the very few scab and management flight attendants to be able to tell CNN that AA was still flying (albeit with nearly empty airplanes due to the FAA mandated passenger/FA ratios), AA was hurting because most of the planes were empty and the APA pilots and APFA Flight Attendants knew this. It was actually hurting AA worse to "proudly" fly nearly empty ("We're winning, we flew nearly 85 percent of our flights on time today") than to jus be parked and lose face and revenue.
UPS IPA pilots and IBT did the same with allowing subcontractor flying up to a certain date during the 1997 UPS IBT Strike.