Originally Posted by Linebacker35
Back in the late 90's AirCanada's regional pilots(AirBC in Western Canada) went on strike. AirCanada then sent most of their RJ's and AirCanada mainline pilots to to cover the flying. So in effect it crushed the regional strike easily. They kept these mainline pilots in the airport hotel in vancouver, so they could avoid the picket lines. These mainline pilots who were flying the RJ's were labled scabs. I was just wondering what you all think of that. Would they be considered scabs or not?
I personaly think it was totaly fair and the AC pilots were not scabs, they were simply filling in so mainline aircanada would not suffer from a regional disruption.
If it was really Air Canada's flying already and they did not have a contract that allowed them to honor struck work then they may have been just doing their job and had no choice in the matter. That is where the scope clause of both carriers come into play. I am guessing AC pilots did not have the right per their CBA to honor the struck work of their feeder, since in effect it is all theirs to begin with. I do not know the whole story.