LOL
So.. that SCAB who bids into a Junior position (and is a pin wearer) and doesn't call in sick is ok but the other guy who never called in sick the whole year but now did self help (maybe for the first time..) to spend a last xmas with someone in the family who is dying of cancer is a 'scumbag'.
Got it.
[Actually, we know where the SCAB stands... but I'm trying to make a point!]

Or..
Maybe we just do our jobs and not worry about every other pilot. If you know of someone who is directly violating our Code of Ethics as a union pilot, then confront him directly
Post his name and situation along with yours.
I've never been afraid to call a spade a spade (nothing racial there! lol)..
Or to call out anyone or anything.

For the record-
1) Called in sick for 3 trips in December years back. Never got a call even though I would have been able to present a doctors note along with hospital bill!
B) Bid reserve one year in December to get Xmas off..
AND
iii) Called in sick for a trip over Xmas one year because I had a doctors appointment (before surgery, scheduled in January) on the 24th and just couldn't trade out of the trip nor could he reschedule.
[One of the MAJOR problems with our PBS system and not getting our schedules till the middle of the previous month.. but I digress~]

End of the day, I find it kinda funny/kind of sad that someone starts an anonymous thread about holiday sick calls.
I will bet ANY amount of money that IF the company came out with some memo or policy about Holiday Sick Calls, many pilots and the Union would be screaming bloody murder.

I get Untied and a few others are ****ed. But then give exact examples and names. To lump everyone in who called in sick over this weekend is BS.

Just my opinion.
Motch

PS> Last time I looked, ALPA has no control over the hiring but somehow every pilot hired is allowed into the union after their first year~
If the hiring gets it wrong, shouldn't the Union do what needs to be done to get it right? Just asking..