BA Strike - Brutish Airways

BA Strike: http://www.unitetheunion.org BA represents a great British tradition. Unfortunately, Willie Walsh doesnt get it. After taking strike action for the first time in many years, we are being victimized. Brutish Airways is treating us like trash, but we wont give in to a bully. Help us fly the flag and get BA airborne again.

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[surreydockskodyerrus]

BA management have an awful lot to answer for. Incurring a £121 million fine for price fixing, purchasing huge fuel reserves at peak prices and overseeing the disastrous opening of Terminal 5. They have now announced record losses of £531 million on top of a loss of £401 million for the previous year. This is the third consecutive year that BA have announced record losses.

[surreydockskodyerrus]

BA is no longer the flag carrier. It does not enjoy a state monopoly nor does it receive a government subsidy. This airline was finished the day it was privatised. It cannot compete with the smaller budget airlines. So the next time you fly to Malaga, Prague or Dublin for a bullseye, just remember that it is you, privatisation and lndustrial competiton who are responsible for the demise of BA.

[yachtno1]

@MegaTrainspotter Don't think BA ever made a Billion in one year ..

[singers78]

This entire mess seems to pretty mcuh come down with one man's obsession to through his weight around BA. He should hang his head in shame for the way he has handled all negotiations (or not) over the last 18 months. If this man had stood down or just accepted that you cannot hold people to ransom for your own personl gain we would not be where we are now. DUNCAN HOLLEY you should be ashamed u have cost your colleagues a lot of money ifnot their careers. Your out of Ba... next step Bassa.

[holamad]

This is the truth , crew get bullied and harrassed, some are at the verge of suicide.

[GC0020]

so what if they strike, Unite unionists are asking for their redunancies anyway!

[binkiie4dictator]

who gives a fuck? its business, and i am sure BA would be all sympathetic if the shoe was on the other foot. fuck em' welcome to competition idiots, go sign on

[grimkamban]

with you all the way

[jonnyhall1]

What would I do? I would get on with it and not moan like the greedy little bitches that you are. I was jobless for 4 months. I would have loved a job while you greedy bastards were looking for excuses to strike

[antoinechantin]

Damaging the company which has supplied them with a good lifetsyle, striking cabin crew are on another planet, and are forcing BA towards much more radical pruning of their department, than was otherwise necessary.

Walsh may not be the most liked CEO BA has ever had, but he is taking necessary steps, and should be supported.

[antoinechantin]

At no stage does this nice lady mention that the original reason given for striking in March was an objection for having to work a bit harder. NO pay-cuts ( in fact, a pay rise scheduled for most ), NO job losses, and a pitiful negotiating period of almost all of 2009, during a period when BA was losing 1 million pounds daily.