A320

Not exactly. They were "pre-hired" to start active employment under the "new contract" They were hired during the previous year prior to the actual strike. The company didn't tell them that "We are having a strike next year, will you accept the job of a strike breaker?" The scenario evolved into a full afterburner path into a strike. That is for sure. To refer to them as Scabs or Scab Wannabies is absolutely a lie just like referring to pilots who pickup open time when the contract clearly allows for it as scabs.

That being said, there are some 570 that think they are heroes. I wouldn't call going on strike heroic. It is what is expected. They certainly do not deserve any implication of being scab like.

XHooker

You're just now starting to cringe about these exchanges?

TaylorB

Agreed.
You guys are doing a pretty good job of making all United (LUAL & LCAL) pilots look like raging a$$ holes. Give it up. You're not going to change someone's opinions on a forum!

Please STOP ... You're making us all look pathetic.

Equinox

I wear the pin, and the unity demonstration is fine. We need to be in solidarity. I formerly served on an MEC and helped run strike centers twice, and was furloughed in 2008.
However, it is also true that management could not give a rat's A** about our demonstrations, whether it is wearing pins, not wearing hats, stickers, informational picketing, or whatever. They know the score, and how the RLA and bankruptcy rules skew the game in their favor. I guarantee you they laugh at us in the Wings club in NYC and their country clubs and boardrooms at our bickering over hats and pins. What impotency.....

Our real weakness, in my opinion, is our own senior alpa "leadership". Furloughed? They did not furlough you, but they (the alpa national president) signed off on the 60 percent outsourcing of our domestic flying, the ultimate cause of our furloughs. And, the natl. chair actually believes that RJ outsourcing of your career jobs is a good thing. Interesting that now that they are coming after his wide-body mainline flying, he wails about outsourcing!. Laughable...Counting on them drawing or holding a line or demanding real improvements? Nope, their priority is obviously protecting dues income and no disruptions, and no threats to their holy major contingency fund.
"live to fight another day" and "take one for the team" are alpa's mantras....

It is always "what is good for alpa national here?" NOT what is best for this pilot group or our whole industry and profession.

Regardless, I'm with my ual leadership and our membership. We are all we've got.

UalHvy

I lost my pin on a trip. Walked around with a piece of masking tape on my tie that said, "Not a Scab."