Boeing pilots to replace striking pilots :(
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Unfortunately you have to be a strike breaker to be on the scab list . This strike was over in November per the article above and other sources I have read. This deal is reprehensible no doubt but doesn’t surprise me coming from Boeing.
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But the pilots were fired during the strike (might be wrong) so it would still apply
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Because the strike was over - so no picket line was crossed?
The issue of course is the WHY the pilots were fired (supposed retribution), but otherwise are you going to call ANY pilot who takes a job with that airline hence forth a 'scab' because they took a job that use to belong to a pilot who was fired? When does stop? Is this label only applied to the first 12 pilots hired?
SCAB means something very distinct in the aviation culture.
The term often gets thrown around on the boards improperly.
The issue of course is the WHY the pilots were fired (supposed retribution), but otherwise are you going to call ANY pilot who takes a job with that airline hence forth a 'scab' because they took a job that use to belong to a pilot who was fired? When does stop? Is this label only applied to the first 12 pilots hired?
SCAB means something very distinct in the aviation culture.
The term often gets thrown around on the boards improperly.
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Because the strike was over - so no picket line was crossed?
The issue of course is the WHY the pilots were fired (supposed retribution), but otherwise are you going to call ANY pilot who takes a job with that airline hence forth a 'scab' because they took a job that use to belong to a pilot who was fired? When does stop? Is this label only applied to the first 12 pilots hired?
SCAB means something very distinct in the aviation culture.
The term often gets thrown around on the boards improperly.
The issue of course is the WHY the pilots were fired (supposed retribution), but otherwise are you going to call ANY pilot who takes a job with that airline hence forth a 'scab' because they took a job that use to belong to a pilot who was fired? When does stop? Is this label only applied to the first 12 pilots hired?
SCAB means something very distinct in the aviation culture.
The term often gets thrown around on the boards improperly.
#20
I asked this on another thread, but didn't get any responses. I'll ask here, since I don't know the answers:
- If these Boeing-supplied American-citizen pilots actually fly for Avianca, and then later get a job with an ALPA-represented US carrier later, would they be allowed to be an ALPA member?
- If a Colombian pilot crosses the Avianca picket line, and then in a few years flies for an ALPA-represented US carrier, would they be allowed to be an ALPA member?
- If this situation were happening at a small foreign airlines like Jambojet (that isn't known in the US), would the implications of crossing the picket line be the same, WRT joining ALPA later?
- If these Boeing-supplied American-citizen pilots actually fly for Avianca, and then later get a job with an ALPA-represented US carrier later, would they be allowed to be an ALPA member?
- If a Colombian pilot crosses the Avianca picket line, and then in a few years flies for an ALPA-represented US carrier, would they be allowed to be an ALPA member?
- If this situation were happening at a small foreign airlines like Jambojet (that isn't known in the US), would the implications of crossing the picket line be the same, WRT joining ALPA later?
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