Less than 20 days to go. A reminder to all...

DON'T DO IT...

http://spiritairlinesscabs.com

You will never be forgotten...

We strike for long enough, Spirit will be out of business. You SCAB, you only lengthen the Strike. You SCAB you are likely to be without a job and be a SCAB on top of it (very difficult to get a job with the lifelong title of SCAB)

Good old fashioned scab talk. It takes me back to a time when things like this really mattered.

Skyhigh

I guess playing the world's smallest violin pays better than the airlines.

I just remember when the job was worth all the fuss of scab intimidation and threats. I doubt that anyone would care anymore if someone was a scab or not. And sadly yes, playing the worlds smallest violin does pay better than the airlines. This thread makes me nostalgic for the way things use to be is all.

Skyhigh

As a reminder, I deleted a post that bypassed the language filter per the TOS.

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If you want your post to stay when you quote someone who it looks like they used a swear or similar TOS violation, just edit that part out yourself in the quotations and it would no longer be a TOS violation. This mostly just applies to swear words.

I wonder if your health insurance is suspended when you go on strike. If so and you had a sick child then the act of going on strike could financially destroy your family and leave your child with insufficient care.

What do you do then?

In addition I am curious to know why the web site indicated that only Spirit Employees would be considered as scabs if they were to cross the line or were to work for another company that was flying the same routes? What about the thousands of unemployed pilots who are out there and not affiliated with Spirit Airlines? Shouldn't the threats extend to them as well?

I know that I do not feel adequately threatened by the web site. What is to stop a bunch of laid off pilots from Skybus from jumping in and taking your jobs?

Skyhigh

The UAL pilot strike in 1985 had the same issues as you bring up. I remember a pilot from my domicile whose wife was in a wheel chair (multiple sclerosis I think) and he was "threatened". During the strike he and his wife were very active in the communications center. He would also push his wife in her wheel chair when they jointly picketed at the airports.

They never lost their insurance.

Some people are willing to back up their beliefs.

Crossing the picket line? It will be a decision they'll regret.

It seems to me in the turbulent airline industry today a scab would have no trouble finding employment in other airlines. What union does Spirit have anyway? Is it ALPA? or something of their own creation?

In addition if they do strike and the company dissolves a large amount of the pilot group and most of the flight attendants will never be able to find another flying job that comes even close to the life they have at Spirit.

Moving and starting over at the bottom is gruesome. Most other pilot jobs are paying far less and offer worse working conditions. My guess is that there will be a huge amount of laid off pilots who have seen life on the other side and are willing to work for nothing if Spirit opens the doors.

Skyhigh

Not that I would cross a line, but the website says if you work cause your kid has cancer and you need the insurance your a scab? That is stupid and quite frankly inhumane to put a job above your own blood. Sorry but my family is more important than being called a scab. This is 2010 not 1965 and if unions were so great we wouldn't be in this situation to begin with would we?