Originally Posted by rickair7777

Yes, please don't call anyone a scab unless they actually cross a line. I noted that you did not mention the "S" word.

If BCA union pilots went on strike, and outsourced pilots flew work which reasonably would have been done by union pilots, then yes that sounds like hypothetical scab behavior to me. If the contractors merely continued to do what they had been doing all along, that's not scabbing. A sympathy strike would be appreciated of course but that's not always legal or practical.

But it's hard to get around the fact that it's harder to have a good union situation at small aviation shops... seems like the bigger the better.