DanBuster,
Sure, the people going into training now are going against the wishes of the union, but, they are not scabs, no more than someone signing on 10 minutes early is a scab.
A strike is a work stoppage; the concerted refusal of employees to perform work that their employer has assigned to them.
As being a trainer has not been assigned to ANYONE, refusing to be a trainer is not equivalent to being on strike.
Calling those who joined during the recruitment ban scabs while AOA members took upgrades to replace those who were fired is another example of misinterpretation.
Here's a better definition of scab:
A SCAB is A Person Who is Doing What You’d be Doing if You Weren’t on Strike.
A SCAB takes your job, a Job he could not get under normal circumstances. He can only advance himself by taking advantage of labor disputes and
walking over the backs of workers trying to maintain decent wages and working conditions. He helps management to destroy his and your profession,
often ending up under conditions he/she wouldn't even have scabbed for. No matter. A SCAB doesn't think long term, nor does he think of anything other
then himself. His smile shows fangs that drip with your blood, for he willingly destroys families, lives, careers, opportunities and professions at the drop of
a hat. He takes from a striker what he knows he could never earn by his own merit: a decent Job. He steals that which others earned at the bargaining
table through blood, sweat and tears, and throws it away in an instant - ruining lives, jobs and careers.
Please reserve the use of the word scab for someone who crosses a picket line of a striking worker, a worker who is risking his career, his finances and his family for better conditions.
Refusing to go into training is hardly that...