Duvie,

Ever since the merger was announced, this forum (and ualpilots) has displayed posts from LCAL pilots suggesting that the blue team were being a-holes for hanging on to our animosity towards scabs, and that we needed to let it go. Posts which contained phrases like "It was 30 years ago" or, "I was in high school, what do I care".

Read BMEP's post (#7) to get the idea. It smacks of acceptance and he suggests that the OP is just pounding his chest and stirring the pot. No, I like to think that he was just honoring the guys who put their jobs on the line to protect the association. The one that negotiates our contracts and provides us with professional representation in front of the company and the FAA. We're "standing on the shoulders of giants" if you will. Like it or not, we're blue collar pukes in the eyes of management. We are simply heavy equipment operators.

The problem is that most UAL types are just dunderheads when it comes to scabs and we like to keep things simple. And as such, the idea of "letting it go" is wholly unacceptable. We still hate our scabs and we still (for the most part) shun them. We cooperate as required for the safe operation of the plane. We don't chat, we don't go out to eat with them and we sure as hill don't desecrate a bar by hanging out with them on layovers.

As Paul Cicero said to Henry Hill, "You're dead to me". We just ignore them, we don't accept them.

They only wear pins which they've stolen and that helps with awareness.
***Unfortunately, that obvious identifier has since been seriously bastardized since CAL re-joined ALPA, but that's another thread. Its hard to undo 30 years of past practice.

Its just a different way of dealing with the past and those who stepped over strikers to improve their lot in life. A way that is pretty universal in most unionized labor groups I might ad. Scabs are scabs till they're dead scabs. Its wise for FNGs to be aware of how we got into this mess in the first place. Even though its far too slanted towards the scabs bleating, I think the video is worthwhile.

Thats it. Nothing personal, no chest pounding, just business.

RIP Abe.