Originally Posted by captain_drew
BS !! WHAT a LOAD of unmitigated CRAP!!
Do yourself a favor and get educated on the history of your industry! You OBVIOUSLY have not read FLYING THE LINE.
It was the pilot’s unions, NOT the FAA, who forced decent duty times and safety standards. The FAA would loosen standards up, under pressure from airline managements, if it were NOT for ALPA-and- APA. Smarten up!
On the subject of SCABS. Once a SCAB . . ALWAYS a SCAB! There ARE no excuses for crossing a picket line! You are the lowest of the low, if you stab a fellow worker in the back and dishonor your industry. Your name will go down in infamy and you will be known as SCUM everywhere you go -and your Jepp bag will end up in Hong Kong, full of dog excrement!
Dear Captain Drew:
When the ALPA pilots at NWA cross the mechanics picket line, will they be Scabs? When the ALPA pilots at EAL crossed the FEIA picket line(early 1960s) were they Scabs? Were the EAL PFEs that crossed and placed on the pilot seniority list Scabs? When Cathay Pacific management(1995) used UPAS (owned by ALPA) to recruit non seniorty list Captains, F/Os, and FEs to crew their freighters at a much reduced wage would you have a name for them?
I'm glad you gave the responsibility for the flight and duty time regs we operate under to the unions. Probably the worst in the world. The Brits did a major revision over 30 years ago. We still fly under the same ones that were written for Connies and DC6/7s.
Have you not heard that ALPA now says once a Scab not always a Scab? Heck I've been told that the present MEC Chairman of Continental crossed.
Regards,
George III