Originally Posted by Regularguy

APC:

"Apple Earns More Money Per Employee Than Exxon"

That's because of creative accounting. They only look at the 40,000 employees actually employed by Apple and not the 150,000 Chinese working for various corps making the products. Bringing it home, UAL now has official about 10,000 pilots, but what about all those contract jets, how many pilots do they employ? 10,000, 20,000 additional?

Originally Posted by SpecialTracking

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.

Originally Posted by Blockoutblockin

Blah, blah, blah. You blowhards crack me up.