I know it's easy to say on this side of things since I'm a young pup, but if I ever endured financial hardship during a strike I would bail before I stepped a picket line. There's no excuse to lower the professional bar.

Amen, brother.

Well, Spanky, if you're a FO like your profile says, it ain't "your" jumpseat anyway. You can bet that if I know there's a scab looking for a jumpseat on an airplane I crew on, I'll tell the Captain, who can then toss him into the jetbridge where he belongs.