BAA strike

Strapped

chesterfield wrote: »

So it is a preemptive strike strike then.

If I have this right, the strike is taking place to safeguard the FS pension scheme for existing members, that hasn't been touched, and that the company have advised will not be touched.

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Bit like WHSmith did? :rolleyes:

There's a difference between advising and guaranteeing. If they guaranteed existing members' rights to future acruals, then no doubt there would be no industrial action.

chesterfield

Is the mere thought that a company MAY follow the same path as others, and MAY close a final salary scheme alltogether a justifiable reason for a strike that will cause misery to thousands of members of joe public and pottentially cost the economy millions?

Isn't this just a step away from having a strike just for the sake of showing an employer what will happen IF they dare cross swords with the union?

It all seems a little baseless to me.

sturll

Parisien wrote: »

Strike....?!.....yeah...they got good enuf reason to do it...power to the worker.

So board, when Sven Goran Eriksson walked away with the remainder of his contracted years pay intact, worth many millions of pounds........he shuda given it all back?

No, it was a contract.......no difference for all those workers who when they joined the BAA FS scheme believed it was to honoured 30 yrs down the line.

BAA have every right to attempt to break the contract................BUT, only after reaching a settlement that meets the long term needs of their workers.

Support the right to strike!

Can i please nominate this user for the most useless post of the year award?

Have you read any of this thread?

rubia1409_2

TonyMcQueen wrote: »

My final word here, it really doesn't matter what any of you say. We are fighting to save our pensions and save our pensions we will.

Reading these posts, we will loose as much sleep about you, or anyone else loosing their holidays as you all would about us loosing our pensions.

But when BAA back down and we win, safeguarding ours and future worker's pension, I will enjoy my retirement and look laughing at my neighbour who worked all their life to make someone else rich.

Over and out.

I wish you the best of luck and hope things go well for you. There is never a good time to go on strike, and whatever time of year it was decided to strike, some one would have been upset and moaning about disrupted travel plans. Everyone is very happy to sit and condemn people for going on strike, however if they worked for the company striking, they might have a different opinion. Someone somewhere will always be disrupted by a strike and unfortunatley many people are only selfish enough to think of themselves and not other people's situations. Stiking is not an easy route to take and very scary to contemplate doing.

rubia1409_2

Parisien wrote: »

Strike....?!.....yeah...they got good enuf reason to do it...power to the worker.

So board, when Sven Goran Eriksson walked away with the remainder of his contracted years pay intact, worth many millions of pounds........he shuda given it all back?

No, it was a contract.......no difference for all those workers who when they joined the BAA FS scheme believed it was to honoured 30 yrs down the line.

BAA have every right to attempt to break the contract................BUT, only after reaching a settlement that meets the long term needs of their workers.

Support the right to strike!

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stphnstevey

When is the strike?

Strapped

chesterfield wrote: »

Is the mere thought that a company MAY follow the same path as others, and MAY close a final salary scheme alltogether a justifiable reason for a strike that will cause misery to thousands of members of joe public and pottentially cost the economy millions?

Isn't this just a step away from having a strike just for the sake of showing an employer what will happen IF they dare cross swords with the union?

It all seems a little baseless to me.

BAA could make it all go away by stating that they won't. (NB Different to "have no intention to...").

ynot2005

lets be honest no-one gives two sh**s about BAA employees, the union or the the company , the only thing that matters is wether the strike will affect you

now the dates have been published and its not over xmas and new year then all the outrage /anger will be forgotten and the big issue will be when to go to tescos before christmas day

i wonder if those who moaned and groaned about the strike will bother to follow the story over the coming months when their flight is a distant memory

no chance

Parisien

sturll wrote: »

Can i please nominate this user for the most useless post of the year award?

Have you read any of this thread?

Yeah......and I thanked you too for it........:)....sczhophrenia is a game of two halves, or have you read my post too literally........on seconds thoughts...don't reply, you're patently of limited intelligence...I'd say bottom 1/10th quartile......:rotfl:

STRIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STRIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STRIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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vermont100

sturll wrote: »

You really are an arrogant selfish little man. How do you know i dont travel First Class?
All we both know is that you are a very bitter and extremely uneducated oxygen thief.
I can understand why BAA are being a bight shady in regards to your pension. Ill bet they feel ripped off paying you £6 per hour. Hell the DSS would feel hard done by paying you Job Seekers allowance!

Must be awkward for you having to come on here and defend yourself to 99% of the posters on here who despise your kind. Ill bet your boyfriend has looked over your shoulder more than once

Still, the support you have across the general public is great.

No Really.

sturll lets run through your main points from this latest post of yours.
arrogant and selfish you said ....... well if you think looking out for other fellow workers who may only have been in a pension for a few years and safeguarding their families and future as that then i think thats a strange assumption. iam personally ina position of having got 24 yrs pension already with another 10 guaranteed could quite easily say i alright jack. but we are not all like you sturll. £6 an hour well you need to times that .......... no im not telling you why should i divulge that info to you. needless to say when your a highly trained person in a position of great responsibility you normally get the gong rate.
didnt quite get the boyfriend thing but then didnt get the baggage handler thing either. as lesley said your good at puerile remarks and nothing else. you have no credability on this forum and have become a laughing stock trying to be the first to break the news.
your actually just a douche bag.......... look that one up . its probably a compliment for you.