HIALS:
Glad to hear you've been around for seven + years, makes two of us
as I changed handle when moving to new server.
As to the matter in hand:
The world is, indeed, not a straightforward place, which is why the tactics of the HKAOA and its members are reprehensible. In particular, it is disturbing to see that a union that does not have the guts to call a strike then tries to enforce a recruitment ban (but, of course, not an upgrade ban) and then is quite happy to sit back an let its members - in this very forum - use the term "scab", which is a derisory word for "strikebreaker".
This leads to either of two possible conclusions: either those using this term are ignorant of its meaning, which would cast alarming doubt on the language proficiency of flightdeck crews - or the term is being knowingly used in an unwarranted way, which casts equally alarming doubts on the character profiles of flightdeck crews.
The point at which the word "scab" entered this forum is when overly simplistic (and aggressive, I should add) views began to surface.