BA

[Frosty]

So the idiots in the union want to go on strike over Christmas for 12 days.
Never mind stopping the changes, they'll be lucky to have jobs once they destroy the airline.

I'm an ex coal board electrician, and yes i went on strike for a year back in 84, fighting for our jobs and pit closures.
But Unite and the BA staff must be living in planet ga ga land, they are the highest paid staff in the industry and the company is losing money hand over fist in these troubled times, so what do they decide to do..........STRIKE.

Branson must be splitting his sides tonight.

[Katys Grandad]

I don't know enough about the issues but it's no secret that BA are struggling without all this. Time will tell but I can't believe that all those who voted really think they will be striking for that length of time.

Just glad I have no flights with them over this period but if it goes into January I will have a problem to sort out.

[Albert the Frog]

Probably like yourselves I've been around long enough to know that strikes should be a last resort and fought either from a position of strength or to protest an extreme wrong-to do this in a failing company in a recession is foolhardy-don't get me started on the punishing of the public with it being over christmas................[msnmad]

[Sniff]

My first (cynical) thought was that they fancied a nice long Christmas break.

I have worked on and off for BA over the past 20 years and I always thought that all the unions (not just those representing cabin staff and pilots) seemed to take some sort of peverse pleasure in butting heads against the management. Perhaps in many situations that was justified, but in the current climate, with BA struggling to stay afloat, it just seems like a suicidal decision.

I can't see BA folding due to this, but it really does put them at risk. If they get weak enough someone will buy them out, if only for their slots at LHR. As I work for a company with a multi-million Euro deal with BA, it's worrying.

As Frosty said, Branson must be enjoying BA's discomfort enormously.