Originally Posted by
Holy Toledo
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.
I am fairly sure that those regionals were adding flying based upon negotiated and bargained contracts (scope) that allowed the flying to go to a regional. In this case the company ceased negotiating with the pilots, layed them off, and replaced them with outside workers.
Regardless if the company hired the workers themselves, or an outside contractor to provide the workers, the end result was the same.... and how they got there is SIGNIFICANTLY different than how the other regionals obtained their flying.
There was no scope agreement to outsource all flying except for the staff for nine airplanes.