British Airways strike - update 12/3/10 - March strike dates named

Mr_Lahey

edda wrote: »

We have annual travel insurance that expires next month. We're flying out with BA later this year - holiday already booked.

How can we get travel insurance that will cover us for later this year when the renewal date is due? I think we may have problems.

I'm not sure you would have a problem. As yet no strike dates have been planned and the whole point of insurance is to cover you for something that may or may not happen.

lolarosegem

Worth reading an excerpt from the independent newspaper.... It may make things a bit clearer for some of you who think that because we are paid a smidgeon (and it is a smidgeon!!) more than easyjet we should all be grateful somehow..

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The strange part is that BA cabin crews don’t generally come across as the selfish wrecking thugs they’re now portrayed as. They mostly smile and bring you stuff, so why would 80 per cent of them vote twice for a strike? Perhaps it’s because the company wants to bring in new staff on inferior terms to those offered to current employees, with less security and lower wages than the current basic rate of £18,000.

The most common response to this complaint is the current terms can’t go on, because Easyjet and Ryanair pay their staff much less. And it’s not fair if some people are being treated horribly, so the answer is to treat everyone horribly and then no one feels bad. Maybe charities should work like this. Oxfam could go to Mozambique and say, "So you’re living on a bowl of rice a day are you? Well in Somalia they’re living on half a bowl of rice a day, so we’re taking half your rice away you greedy pigs."


Never a truer word spoken..

ANY job whatsoever could be done more cheaply by a 24 year old fresh out of college, university or whatever. They don't have the commitments of an adult.

If you spend 15 - 35 years in a job (like most ba crew) you will have commitments to your means, i.e. kids, mortgage, car payments, nursery fees, bills. etc.etc.

It would really appear that reading this vitriolic forum, that the vast majority of you think it fine that we are replaced by a cheap young workforce.
Will you think the same when your employer does it to you?

Mr_Lahey

lolarosegem wrote: »

Worth reading an excerpt from the independent newspaper.... It may make things a bit clearer for some of you who think that because we are paid a smidgeon (and it is a smidgeon!!) more than easyjet we should all be grateful somehow..

<snipped boring bit>

No, you should be grateful you have a job.

lolarosegem

err no. (why, is it because you are unemployed mr lahey, are you jealous?)

Mr_Lahey

lolarosegem wrote: »

err no. (why, is it because you are unemployed mr lahey, are you jealous?)

Jealous of someone who feels that they should be paid £60k+ for serving food....

No, i am not jealous.

spurs_nut

lolarosegem wrote: »

err no. (why, is it because you are unemployed mr lahey, are you jealous?)

I really hope you lose your job, You don't deserve one!

spurs_nut

lolarosegem wrote: »

Worth reading an excerpt from the independent newspaper.... It may make things a bit clearer for some of you who think that because we are paid a smidgeon (and it is a smidgeon!!) more than easyjet we should all be grateful somehow..

"
The strange part is that BA cabin crews don’t generally come across as the selfish wrecking thugs they’re now portrayed as. They mostly smile and bring you stuff, so why would 80 per cent of them vote twice for a strike? Perhaps it’s because the company wants to bring in new staff on inferior terms to those offered to current employees, with less security and lower wages than the current basic rate of £18,000.

The most common response to this complaint is the current terms can’t go on, because Easyjet and Ryanair pay their staff much less. And it’s not fair if some people are being treated horribly, so the answer is to treat everyone horribly and then no one feels bad. Maybe charities should work like this. Oxfam could go to Mozambique and say, "So you’re living on a bowl of rice a day are you? Well in Somalia they’re living on half a bowl of rice a day, so we’re taking half your rice away you greedy pigs."


Never a truer word spoken..

ANY job whatsoever could be done more cheaply by a 24 year old fresh out of college, university or whatever. They don't have the commitments of an adult.

If you spend 15 - 35 years in a job (like most ba crew) you will have commitments to your means, i.e. kids, mortgage, car payments, nursery fees, bills. etc.etc.

It would really appear that reading this vitriolic forum, that the vast majority of you think it fine that we are replaced by a cheap young workforce.
Will you think the same when your employer does it to you?

Actually, after taking the time to read your post. You don't sound like cabin crew at all.

You sound like a middle aged BASSA dinosaur.... That desperate are we?

Your propaganda on how well the strike is going is hilarious.

Comparable to comical Ali......



There are 500 infidels grounded behind me. We will win this fight.

lolarosegem

where on earth do you get the 60k figure Mr Lahey? Do you believe everything the daily mail tells you...?:rotfl:

dpotter

spoken to a couple of mates today, their companies (large mulitnationals) are pulling out of using BA for future corporate travel, carry on striking and you may well all be out of a job anyways.

lolarosegem

no matter dpotter, they are trying to change our terms and conditions so badly that we wouldn't be able to afford to work for ba anymore. This is our only hope.