Accepting people at face value??? I'll accept people at face value and give them the benefit of the doubt until their actions prove otherwise...
You obviously have not flown a single leg in the airline world.
The general well-being of the professional airline pilots depends on each of us refusing to undercut our fellow pilots for a little short-term selfish gain. To clarify, here are some examples:
SCAB: Technically, someone who crosses a picket line. But pilots who voluntarily fly for an alter-ego carrier like go-jets or the old freedom airlines qualify in spirit if not in the letter of the law. The alter-ego exists primarily as a mechanism to remove work which rightfully belongs to an existing pilot group which labored for years to make possible the growth opportunity that the scabs are taking advantage of. This benefits management because they can replace high-seniority pilots with low-seniority, lower-cost pilots. The scabs are selfish opportunists who are usually attracted to fast upgrades. What if every pilot workforce were replaced every ten years...that's about when you get a spouse and a couple of kids. Should management be allowed to get rid of you and replace you with twenty-something single people who can live on top-ramen?
Not SCABs: Pilots who voluntarily work for an airline which has lower compensation standards than other airlines. This is market economy in action, competition is competition. All we can do here is encourage our fellow pilot groups to hold out for more, especially in the regional industry where payscales are often not practical for anyone with a family. There are some legitimate tradeoff options, lifestyle vs. pay vs. upgrade that pilots can consider when choosing an employer.
No scab ever has an excuse, but in today's market it is ludicrous to talk about "sitting at home waiting for a job that never came"...many of the regionals hiring pools are empty, they are offering jobs on the interview day! If you can't get hired by anyone but blo-jets, you probably need to re-evaluate your long-term potential in this industry...if most regionals deny you, then the majors are certainly not going to be more accomodating!
There is no actual law against scabbing, but there is also no law that says I cannot carry those lists around either!