Originally Posted by
maxjet
Here we go again with the juvenile behavior! You don't agree with what they are doing so they must be SCABS. This is a changing of the industry again. It is change! Deal with it! The sooner people like you come down from your ivory towers and join reality the better off the industry will be. There are so many more important things to be worried about. The media is all over this Colgan rest and pay issue. Spend some of you time sending letters to your elected officials and organizing your fellow workers about these important issues. You will never control the size of the aircraft but you may be able to change the rules and pay the go with flying them.
Those arguements do have some limited validity. In the present cases of outsourcing to regionals, we have management replacing their pilots with outside labor.... they are just doing it with a collective contract to a regional airline, instead of hiring one person at a time to sit in their pilot's seats. They are also doing it before the pilots obtain the opportunity to strike over the issue. So, in effect there is some validity to the use of the term.
In the strictest sense/interpretation the word is not accurate... However, if all one focuses on are the effective results then the term is fairly accurate. It also needs to be considered that times change, the days of airline management waiting for their pilots to strike before replacing them is all but gone. Much simpler to just outsource to regionals that are flying larger and larger aircraft every day.
Perhaps the strict definition of the word needs to be reviewed in light of the developments in the last few decades.