BAA strike

fifeken

richardw wrote: »

There isn't a BAA strike.

There was one threatened two years ago when this thread started.;)

amanda47

I do apologies Richardw I should learn to read :rolleyes:

fkmonsta

I'm sorry people have to loose their holiday - but they need to stop being so selfish - there are more important things at play here than their reschedulable holiday.[/QUOTE]

I find this remark rather unthoughtful and somewhat ignorant. Flying isn't always about going on holiday for fun.

I agree wholeheartedly that the employees should have full pension rights and that the management are greedy pigs, and will, like most large corporations, screw who they can to guarantee their profits. But here it is the consumer who will suffer unless the management pull their fingers out their a**e and do what they should.

We are innocent in this, and are not being selfish if we want to spend the winter holiday with our family. My son is in school and only has this time off. My mum died 14 years ago, my dad died Jan 08, both very suddenly and young, and my one of my sisters twins died Dec 8th 08 (aged 4.5 months). My sister and the surviving twin are flying from Edinburgh to visit me and my son from 24th Dec. For various reasons, (including greedy train companies management) she cannot get the train. To suggest that we are being selfish in wanting to be together is extremely ignorant and unthoughtful. And how about the families that need to fly in such an emergency. Are they too being selfish?

You need to look at large corporation policy worldwide, screw the little people to line the fat cats pockets. It is totally wrong, and they shoould be pulled up on it. But don't accuse and blame the consumer of such petty things when you know nothing of their circumstances. This strike will make our family's Christmas lonely and sad, a time when we all want to be with our families, and we always miss our deceased loved ones at this time of year as it is. We want to be together with the ones we've got left. And I hope that BAA sees sense and gives the workers the rights they deserve.

richardw

BAA is now just a name of a private company, it isn't an "Authority".