Poll: Do you support the BA Cabin Crew 12 day strike at Christmas?

Do you support the BA Cabin Crew 12 day strike?

  • Yes

    Votes: 94 12.5%

  • No

    Votes: 656 87.5%
  • Total voters
    750
  • Poll closed .
stockhausen said:
Does anyone not directly involved have sufficient information to comment :confused:

The management appear to be incredibly reluctant to take any measures to prevent or delay the strike; perhaps because maximising the disruption to the public over Christmas is likely to favour their intransigent position.
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This I don't have enough information to comment.

Obviously strike action is the last of a long and bitter negotiation.
 
No.. selfish ****s!
inturrupting peoples christmas holidays cos their money grabbers! no thanks!


come to think of it thats a very narrow minded PoV from myself.. but still true
 
All Willie Walsh cares about is the happiness of his passengers . . .

Yeah, right Willie, we all believe you :rolleyes:
The airline's chief executive Willie Walsh said: "We are absolutely determined to do whatever we can to protect our customers from this appalling, unjustified decision from Unite. We do not want to see a million Christmases ruined. Unite was told about the problems with its ballot on Friday. Yet it cynically went ahead with an extreme, highly-publicised threat to our customers and our business in the knowledge that it might not be able to carry it out."
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Unite joint general secretaries Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley earlier criticised BA's approach to the dispute. "Christmas travel on British Airways is being held hostage by a macho management which prefers imposition and confrontation, or even litigation, to negotiation," they said in a statement on Tuesday. "Last Friday we offered to suspend any industrial action and declare a pause for peace if the company would only agree to suspend its imposition of new terms and conditions on cabin crew. Willie Walsh turned this offer down flat. Confrontation, not negotiation, is his approach, even though an industrial dispute will cost the company vastly more money than his projected savings from attacking cabin crew conditions." (BBC on-line)
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Despite his claims to the contrary, Willie Walsh appears to be quite happy to have this strike, at this time. It is all rather reminiscent of the Coal Miner's dispute back in the '80s except that the Government is not involved this time.

I suspect that this is just indicative of the gradual, inevitable decline of BA in favour of lower-cost, cherry pickers such as Virgin Atlantic and no-frills airlines such as EasyJet & RyanAir.
 
My friend's family lost £4000 - paid by debit card! The Dad can't go out knowing he might not make it back for work and he'll lose his job, so they've had to cancel.

No, they shouldn't. They earn too much, have a relatively cushy job and get to go abroad, a lot.
 
No.

Most strikes have only a negative effect on the employer, and as a direct consequence, the employees.
 
As mush as I can see why the staff want to strike as they are being asked to take wage cuts and work harder, I do feel that in their current climate they should take stock of where they are.

AFIK (my mates wife is a BA cabin crew) they are the most highly paid cabin crew in the UK.

She works 6 months of the year and gets £25,000pa plus a generous pension and free/cheap flights etc. She has worked all her life for them so is on one of the best pay scales. £25k per annum for a part time job is too much in my opinion and they have had it too good for too long.

The company is in financial trouble and losing millions and needs to save money.

Would you rather have a reduced wage and working a bit harder or no job at all when the company folds? Or go work at Easyjet for about £17k per annum full time?

I think they are mad to strike to hold out for more money.
 
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I think it's totally inappropriate. If they don't like what the management is doing to try and save the company they work for then I suggest they leave and go work for a different airline. Oh wait, that means taking a £5k+ cut in wages and there are no vacancies anyway, shame.
 
They think they can just jump straight on the bandwagon and strike whenever and whereever they want, without any thought or consideration towards the implications of their actions.

If they do actually earn £29K a year then it is just greed.
 
Great quote from Facebook:

"There should be zero sympathy for BA cabin crew even if their initial grievance was just. They have voted as a group to cause the highest possible disruption and upset to families at Christmas. They know exactly the tactics they are adopting and therfore should not be allowed to high behind any other excuse.

I am disgusted at the pictures of smiling cabin crew, united in their quest to hurt as many people as possible. There were other options, including a strike in Jaunary that would not involve the high percentage of personal and family travel.

BA was already losing customers (yes, I am a frequent flyer) and this action will do nothing other than drive more away. The revenue will go down and costs will go up - not the perfect way to protect jobs!

Many, many cabin crew will end up out of work and the union will still be happily employed wrecking another business - in this life you get what you deserve.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large number"
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I think it is about time the Government started backing its so called "national" airline.
 
No idea as I have no idea what they are striking for. It is very rarely down to just pay. even though that's all the news talks about.


cheechm said:
Great quote from Facebook:



I think it is about time the Government started backing its so called "national" airline.
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:confused:
every single strike is always done to maximise losses. No point striking otherwise.
 
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