Originally Posted by
BMEP100
Finally- you get it- maybe; Alpa members crossed a picket line and did struck work! Then you say it is their prerogative to say they are not scabs. How convenient.
If I get what you are saying, a worker can cross a picket line and take someone else,s job, and it is okay - if their own ( different) union says it is okay. Survival of the fittest I guess huh? Would you say the same thing had the FEIA been able to cross and take ALPA jobs, or maybe if APA or Teamster pilots come take ALPA jobs? Never mind, I think I know your answer.
Well, if you are a typical pilot personality and you are looking for black and white, you will not find it in the trade union movement. No union, including ALPA, has ever achieved absolute purity in their actions, but what is the alternative, no union? If you want the benefits of collective bargaining, it comes with an obligation to support the group when it may be inconvenient.
If the individual doesn't agree or was disadvantaged by his union, is that justification to scab? If a Braniff pilot thinks ALPA was the reason he lost his job, should he have scabbed CAL in 83? Or, the America West (former Wein scab) to scab Ansett in 89. We all know the answer, and that is why we have a list.
It is a stretch to conflate a dispute between unions to the act of an individual deciding it is OK to cross a legal picket line to do struck work, no matter the excuse, but you are entitled to your opinion.