Originally Posted by
AllenAllert
Trying to turn s--t to shinola again there - are ya'? If IACP was the CAL union that merged into ALPA, then it was the CAL pilots that allowed the scabs into their inhouse union regardless of who or what group started the IACP. As a result, ALPA allowed CAL IACP join ALPA scabs, warts and all.
JoeP did a good job explaining the transaction without all your revisionist history and rancor. We have a lot of new guys on property and maybe a little truth will go along way to help them understand the CAL side of the family. Several years have past and I'm still learning about the dark side.
I'm afraid you aren't very familiar with the US's Labor Laws as it applies to Unions. ALPA had to take the SCABS from the IACP as it was a reorganizing drive and the transaction would have been nullified without taking every member of the previous Union that represented CAL.
I certainly didn't want the SCAB's as did a good many others. IACP was started by a SCAB, fact. I voted for ALPA during the organizing drive, fact. The SCABS and the management wanted the IACP and sent out dozens of messages indicating that the Eastern guys would get DOH on our list if we certified ALPA and scared the more timid non-SCABS of our group into voting for the inept IACP, also fact.
Trust me AA, the hard-core Unionist types at CAL did not want the IACP or later the SCABS to be allowed into our Union. Thank the US labor laws for that one.