I got a call this afternoon for a junior man opportunity to fly IAH-GRU.

I'm surprise they even called to junior man someone. Those usually get picked up really quick. There is enough people that are dying to pick up trips around here. I have a hard enough time working my line let a lone trying to pick anything up.

I'm an IAH 756 FO.

 

Jimmy Tripson died? I'm surprised that isn't a thread in and of itself.

 

One dead scab deserves another!
Tripson, James B CAL 83 dob 5/20/48, 0873G

 

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That statement is totally over the top and WRONG

 

The Scab
by Jack London, (1876-1916)


[LEFT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=4]After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab.

A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out.

No man (or woman) has a right to scab so long as there is a pool of water to drown his carcass in, or a rope long enough to hang his body with.
Judas was a gentleman compared with a scab. For betraying his master, he had character enough to hang himself. A scab has not.

Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.

Judas sold his Savior for thirty pieces of silver.

Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commision in the british army. The scab sells his birthright, country, his wife, his children and his fellowmen for an unfulfilled promise from his employer.

Esau was a traitor to himself; Judas was a traitor to his God; Benedict Arnold was a traitor to his country. A scab is a traitor to his God, his country, his family and his class.

Author --- Jack London (1876-1916)

 

No it isn't

 

I know that when a pilot strikes, he/she does so as a last resort to strengthen their contact and a profession as a whole. They do so knowing they might not have a job to come back to, thereby placing themselves and their families at great financial risk. If the airline decides to operate during with the strike with scabs, the striking pilot fears may come true. Think NWA mechanics. While the pilot is walking the picket line, scabs are doing their best to continue the operation, eventually preventing the striking pilot from ever returning to the cockpit. The scabs don't want the strikers back since that would cause seniority issues for the scabs.

From what I can gather, many of the CAL scabs are seen as good guys. They have done good union work. They have worked in the fight office or training department to benefit the CAL pilot group as a whole. The CAL scabs had good reasons to cross, be it financial issues, medical reasons, what have you. If there is a strike in the future, from what I have read, these "good"guys will have our back and walk the picket line along side us.

You be the judge.

 

Have you ever been on strike and had someone cross your picket line?

 

Speak what you fatctually know and what you don't ... listen and learn...


Well said sir!