I don't think shiz was referring to pilots picking up time as scabs. Now, I think that depending on the situation you could make the argument that picking up open time during furloughs is somewhere in between not being a scab and being one but I wouldn't use the word.

I think what Gus is saying is that to have that attitude you'd have to be like one of the 1983 'hires' or really anyone who shares their avaricious mindset that facilitates furloughs.
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Ironically, I think some may equate being against picking up open time to being a, for lack of a better term, union thug. Not so. I lean heavily towards being pro industry and anti-union management than the other way around- but I'm never ever anti-employee.

If you're a company that doesn't care who you hire or about the people you hire than you are simply a ship without a rudder and no matter how could your maps and navigator are no mission will be accomplished effectively or efficiently. If that attitude trickles down to having employees who don't take care for each other then you're simply sinking and eventually you won't exist. Took Home Depot a while to realize that. Ask around town here and you'll find the management employees hated working there during Nardeli's tenure and they made a plethora of bean counter/anti-people moves that backfired on their quality and brand and allowed the now more customer centric and aggressive Lowe's to catch up and Nardeli was then pushed out- with his $200M+ parachute firmly intact. Interestingly I got to fly him as his law firm chartered our plane to go to NYC the week after he was fired.

IMO, I think you could even find that most JB pilots (assuming here) would be against picking up open time if they had pilots involuntarily furloughed and they don't even have a union.

It's not a union thing, it's a people thing.