posted by dumpcheck: They better honor picket lines...especially if they are ALPA!! How could they be considered anything other than scabs?


Did Delta/ASA/Skywest et al. pilots honor picket lines when Comair was on strike, or sympathy walk? This may answer your question. It's only struck work when they go beyond the "scope" of their normal operations. So tell me how many regional pilots do you think are going to continue flying during a strike? My guess will be all of them. I don't like it, but I'm sure it will happen. Especially seeing as how the largest of UAL feeders is non-union to begin with, and opposes any tightening of scope.

If the other carriers do walk, that's great, but we can't expect it, nor should the NMB base their decision on releasing us to self help, on whether or not other carriers may or may not honor the strike.

Management created the paradigm where half of the domestic feed is done by other carriers, this is the exact reason we might walk, but they can't have it both ways. If mainline controlled all flights at the biggest carrier domestically, then there can be an argument of essential commerce being interrupted during a strike. As we stand with the way scope is today, we have international alliances, and domestic code share and capacity purchase agreement carriers, flying half or more of our passengers. Our striking hurts the pocket book and egos of those at UALs headquarters more than it affects the passengers, and commerce. Again, they created the situation, not labor.

Managements successful efforts to end run the UAL pilots and abrogate scope through alliances and code shares, will be the exact reason for the NMB to release us, when time comes. That being said the economic impact to UAL would be significant. We are truly in a once in a lifetime situation today, where WE CAN get things accomplished