All of you are buying into the argument using earned sick leave is abuse.

And the reason you are doing so is because the use of sick leave by a pilot triggers cascading scheduling problems because of chronic understaffing by the company.

And instead of arriving at the obvious and appropriate solution..... which is to expect the company to staff adequately.....you are looking to render ineffective the only economic leverage (GS) we have to compel the company to properly staff.