I will never cross a picket line nore will I ever work for a unionless airline, but being furloughed is something you signed up for when you took on this profession. it is a part of life...it has been happening for years. If you didn't plan and prepare for it then you are stupid and uneducated...when it comes to open time...I pick it up at premium rate so I can pay my student loans off faster. I do this because I have to take care of me. Thats all there is to it.