British Airways cabin crew vote for Christmas strike

**Maggy J** · 14-12-2009, 20:13

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8411214.stm

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British Airways cabin crew have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in a dispute over job cuts and changes to staff contracts.
The strikes are set to begin on 22 December and run until 2 January.

This has enraged me.I'm not travelling anywhere myself but I'm thinking of those like my niece who lives and works in Brussels who may well not be able to get home for Christmas and see her family..

It's cynical and it's disgusting.

Hom3r · 14-12-2009, 20:20

With loads of people being made redundant, not getting pay rises, or taking pay cuts I think they are extracting the urine.

BA cabin staff get more than any other cabin staff.

If they strike all customers should get a full refund plus any losses they suffer (one guy is going somewhere exotic to get married).

Striking for more money in the current climate id byind a joke.

Sack the lot.

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Originally Posted by Maggy J

my niece who lives and works in Brussels who may well not be able to get home for Christmas and see her family..

It's cynical and it's disgusting.

can she not use eurostar?

It runs from Brussels to London?

papa smurf · 14-12-2009, 20:40

while the planes are grounded there not destroying mother earth
and that's a positive for me .

**Chris** · 14-12-2009, 20:45

Hmmm, the country's deep in recession and BA's losing money hand over fist. How best to preserve our living? I know, let's go on strike and make sure our employer loses even more money, resulting in more of us getting told we no longer have a job to go to.

Muppets.

Hom3r · 14-12-2009, 21:20

The only good thing is that BA don't have to pay them while on they'll on strike.

Horace · 14-12-2009, 21:36

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Originally Posted by papa smurf

while the planes are grounded there not destroying mother earth
and that's a positive for me .

They'll just use alternative airlines or fly later. No trees will be saved.

Sirius · 14-12-2009, 21:39

Unions why do you think your GOD.

What a bunch of numpties.

I have just stopped my payments to the CWU last month because of the way they are constantly looking for ways to force a strike

**Maggy J** · 14-12-2009, 21:48

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Originally Posted by Hom3r

With loads of people being made redundant, not getting pay rises, or taking pay cuts I think they are extracting the urine.

BA cabin staff get more than any other cabin staff.

If they strike all customers should get a full refund plus any losses they suffer (one guy is going somewhere exotic to get married).

Striking for more money in the current climate id byind a joke.

Sack the lot.

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can she not use eurostar?

It runs from Brussels to London?

I dare say she could but then so will everyone else trying to get home or go home to Europe..Less planes will force other travellers onto Eurostar or the ferries

punky · 14-12-2009, 22:42

When you have a strike you usually have a reasonably-small undercurrent of support. I'm yet to find anyone who supports this outside of the union and the CC. PPrune is quite anti-strike.

Judging by the amount of people saying they will refuse to use BA (albeit not their fault per se) is quite astounding.

**Damien** · 14-12-2009, 22:44

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Originally Posted by Maggy J

I dare say she could but then so will everyone else trying to get home or go home to Europe..Less planes will force other travellers onto Eurostar or the ferries

Thank God I already booked my Eurostar ticket.

papa smurf · 14-12-2009, 22:58

i have a boat if anyone wants to pay hideous amounts of money to get to or from yerp

heero_yuy · 15-12-2009, 10:18

They say turkeys never vote for Christmas, these idiots are going to destroy the very company that gives them a living. In the middle of a recession and with some parts of the aviation industry loosing money hand over fist, most notably BA itself at £1.5m/day, the only winners will be the no-frills airlines.

This year BA made a loss of £401m, the worst in its history, unless the company can be made profitable in short order it'll go bankrupt.

**Matt D** · 15-12-2009, 13:16

BA Humbug?

webcrawler2050 · 15-12-2009, 13:21

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Originally Posted by Maggy J

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8411214.stm

This has enraged me.I'm not travelling anywhere myself but I'm thinking of those like my niece who lives and works in Brussels who may well not be able to get home for Christmas and see her family..

It's cynical and it's disgusting.

No wonder why the economy is the way it is. I am sick to death of people striking in this country, we seem to be world class in striking. People, shutup do your job, get on with it. Thats not directed at people here, BA staff

**Rob** · 15-12-2009, 15:26

Presumably these people going on strike will enjoy their dole money. Because that's what will happen as no company loosing so much money can sit idle and do nothing. I just hope that their loosing their jobs because they went on strike would be treated as having resigned from employment such that they can't get the dole for a while.