You would have to work in an environment where there is a union to understand what goes on. I worked in that area for 37 years and I personally think that unions are a necessary evil, and that in a lot of work areas they protect the weak. That is not the case of ALPA. Someone has to be there to negotiate your benefits-the company does not give you increases in your benefit package out of the kindness of their heart. When you are working along side someone who crosses the picket line, they are in effect saying I come first, instead of how can "we" get a better deal. They don't go without while you do, and yet they end up getting the same raise, etc. that you went out on strike to try and accomplish. That is why a scab is NEVER forgiven.