Whew! You can repack the cases. BA’s union has been told that they didn’t play fair when they included ex-staff and soon to be ex-staff amongst those balloted about the strike.
While you would generally find me alongside Citizen Smith in any action for the workers I think the Unite union which represents BA staff is taking the proverbial and is not doing its members any favours at all. What is there to win in driving the company that pays you into the ground plus making it the most universally despised national organisation in the travel sector?
This Christmas strike action, which could have taken from many their hard-earned holiday, was a cynical and cold-blooded game of chicken. Tactics used to secure the vote to walk out were underhand and relied on numbers being made up by possibly disgruntled ex-employees.
Growing up, our family holidays were hard won. Every penny had been salted away to ensure that we got to go somewhere special for the Glasgow weekend. That might have been Saltcoats, Skegness or Stranraer – one memorable year it was even Spain – but those holidays were never taken for granted and they gave us all something to look forward to throughout the rest of the year. I can’t imagine that that much has changed since then.
Call me naive, but if the BA staff want to push the bosses’ backs to the wall, announce a strike now for Easter. No-one in their right mind will book BA for Easter and there will be bloodshed in the boardroom until a deal is struck that ensures full service during this lucrative time of the year. The results would be the same but no innocent bystanders would have been hurt in the process.
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