Originally Posted by
Mason32
To cross a picket line, the union and company must have been at an impass. They were.
They must have gone through arbitration/mediation and been released to self help....
they never got to do any of that....
management didn't waste any time waiting for a strike, they basically fired them, and hired an outside subcontractor. Call it furlough, layoff, fired, terminated, whatevery you want...
so, it is basically the same thing... in either case you are taking another union members job.
When the term first originated, nobody expected or thought of this type of situation. We were all used to a strike, and management hiring replacement workers... nobody thought of them bypassing hiring their own employees and just contracting an outside company to do it for them.
It's the same result.
By this logic, almost every regional pilot group is comprised of thousands of "Scabs". Almost every regional flying right now added flying, airplanes, and pilots while majors furloughed and parked airplanes. And in many of these cases, the "replacement" pilots belonged to the same union.
If you're going to re-define "scab" be prepared to compile a long list.