ALPA National did allow the CAL Scabs back in. There are some errors in the posts above as to what occurred when the IACP was merged into ALPA.

In 2000 Duane Woerth and his right hand man Howard Attarian approached the IACP about coming back into the ALPA fold. The IACP made it clear that the only possibility is with amnesty given to the Scabs.

In October 2000 at the ALPA BOD meeting Duane brought forth to the BOD for discussion bringing the CAL pilots back into ALPA and that realistically the the only way that was going to happen was to allow the CAL Scabs back into ALPA. I'm sure this was a very heated and contentious BOD but in the end Duane had approval from the ALPA BOD to percede.

Then Duane negotiated a merger agreement with the IACP that was approved by the IACP BOD. The IACP BOD was made up of CAL pilot reps (some were Scabs) and Continental Express pilot reps as the IACP was a single union for CAL & CALEXP.

One of ALPA's demands was the Eastern Scabs were not given amnesty. There was a block of 150 or so Eastern pilots comprised of Eastern full term strikers and Scabs that came to Continental in 97 from a EAL bankruptcy settlement.

The Eastern Scabs had to reapply to ALPA and pay back dues and or strike penalties . The IACP & ALPA both allowed this to happen proving you don't have to allow Scabs back in as stated in posts above.