BA

[Del Lardo]

Originally Posted by Stan_Lite

BA announce record losses of £420million and Unite still think it's in their members' best interests to strike and lose the company even more money and probably long term business - madness. Do Unite think we're still in the 70s?

I watched a program about shipping containers (I know how to live my life!) a couple of weeks back on BBC4. The ship yard workers in London & Liverpool were dead against them when they were first introduced as they were a way more efficient way of unloading ships than by doing it by hand. They refused to change to work with them and instead put all their efforts in to strikes. The end result was Felixstowe.

Think that the BA Cabin crew are doing a similar thing, there is now masses more competition in the market not only from budget airlines but from labour markets that simply weren't available 20 years ago. In 20 years time I expect to see a program full of bitter old BA stewardesses (quite a few of them are already there from my recent experiences) complaining about how they were screwed over when if they'd put half as much effort into doing their job or retraining as they had done striking they'd have had a much better life.