Originally Posted by
cadetdrivr
And it's especially funny when the scab gets upset about being called a scab and the Captain pulls out a 25 year old copy of the UAL Labor Relations letter that states that the word "scab" is not only permitted but it's protected speech as long as it's accurate. "Go ahead and keep the copy of the letter for your complaint, I've got lots...."
Or so I've heard.
I had a TK instructor tell me that when training consolidated in Denver that a CAL scab got mad because his training partner told him that the captain was a scab. The captain got upset, marched down to the head of training, and demanded that the F/O get fired for calling him a scab. The training manager just asked if he was a scab. When the captain said that he was hired during the strike, the manager just smiled and told him that he was in fact a scab and to get back to class. Just as long as you use it as a legal term and not an insult attached to a string of expletives, you are fine.