You are so, so strange.
BAA Strikes (BAA, NOT BRITSH AIRWAYS)
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You are so, so strange.
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As an individual traveller there is no other choice.
Don't forget to take your keyboard to the airport with you.
Edit - damn, beaten.
lolrypt, then.
[TW]Fox;17131179 said:
Let's see how quick Simpson or Woodley (I think that's the two heads of Unite) are to call for strikes in the future if someone leaves them lying in piles of their blood and so on for screwing with them
I believe in vigilante justice in cases where the authorities refuse to do anything
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We are due to fly out on a large self organised US trip on the 15th September, we have had BAA and AA strikes to worry about. Also had 2 Hotels booked through 1800hotels.com who went bust on 14th July and only found out about it last week.
It's all a nightmare at the moment.
It's all a nightmare at the moment.
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Actually you make an intersting point rypt. I wonder how many would hold the line in a picket if a few petrol bombs came flying in
hehe.Now I'm off for a lie down before my keyboard leaves me disgusted at my typing.
One law for you and another for the rest of us. By the way the lynch mob has departed. It went over a century ago but don't forget the keyboard.
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They should sack the lot of them and let them re-apply for their jobs back.
Plenty of more than capable cabin staff happily working for less 'glamorous' airlines.
Plenty of more than capable cabin staff happily working for less 'glamorous' airlines.
This is not about British Airways nor cabin crew.
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[TW]Fox;17131278 said:
I would disagree. I know two BA staff who work in T5. Both think the strike is entirely justified.
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NO
What he means is
BAA is a completely different company to BA
BAA owned and runs major airports, BA flies some planes about the place.
This thread is about impending BAA airport strikes which will affect everyone going through an airport, not about BA staff having to do a bit more work on transatlantic flights.
BAA was bought by Grupo Ferrovial for £10bn in a leveraged buyout in 2006. That means that GF borrowed a large proportion of the £10bn to buy the company and then transferred that debt onto BAA (this has also happened to Man Utd and Liverpool FC) who then have to pay it back. It shouldn't be surprising that BAA isn't making a profit in the current economic strategy and it's no surprise that it is the workers who are being asked to take below inflation pay rises to pay back someone else's loans. Sadly I don't see much of a future for companies bought in such mega-deals, it sucks for people travelling but expect more industrial action as the chickens come home to roost for companies bought under mega-LBOs.
Sounds exactly like at another example of why strike action needs to be subject to a reasonableness test before blanket exemption for the consequences of the action is given to the rabble rousing union and the strikers themselves.
Union reform will happen, with the support of the majority of the UK, if they refuse to grow up.
Union reform will happen, with the support of the majority of the UK, if they refuse to grow up.
I hope!!!I'm struggling to put into words how much people like this annoy me.
You don't like it? Find another job. Don't hide behind the union bringing even more financial difficulty to the company.
If the company was swimming in profits then meh if that's what you want to do to try and get what you want. But when a company isn't making money don't make things worse ffs idiots.
I really wish companies were allowed to say fine, you don't like it there's the door. Oh and mind that queue of people who would take your job in an instant if they had the chance.
That's not the best way to put it but it's late and I'm tired!
You don't like it? Find another job. Don't hide behind the union bringing even more financial difficulty to the company.
If the company was swimming in profits then meh if that's what you want to do to try and get what you want. But when a company isn't making money don't make things worse ffs idiots.
I really wish companies were allowed to say fine, you don't like it there's the door. Oh and mind that queue of people who would take your job in an instant if they had the chance.
That's not the best way to put it but it's late and I'm tired!
[TW]Fox;17130766 said:
Using language / arguments such as this is not helpful towards to reasoned debate, is antagonistic and quite childish.
The topic is sound, if not the manner in which is has been presented. Thank fully most responding are more mature and can take a more considered and less embittered view.
It probably isn't worth commenting too much on the current industrial action - it is a legacy action which started a long while ago under the Labour government. Which Labour candidate succeeds will depend on whether this continues, along with the action of other affiliated unions.
BA hasn't been an airline for well over a decade now - it is a pension fund administrator heavily in debt that happens to generate income from flying planes around the world and sometimes sorting their passengers' baggage. I'd give it 12 months to pull around, or else let it fail along with absolutely every other job that depends upon it being in business. Then we'll start to see the true cost of air travel in the UK.