BA Cabin Crew

So the results are in and British Airways cabin crew (pictured left) have overwhelmingly voted to go on strike.

Over 80% of the membership voted with 92% voting in favour of strike action. Which begs the question: What the fook are they thinking?

I have every sympathy with workers who feel that the only way they can make their managers hear their voices is by going on strike. However, this is madness and I wouldn't mind betting a hefty sum that many of those who voted in favour of strike action will, asa result, be out of a job this time next year as BA make savage cuts or, even worse, collapse completely.

This is a company that lost over £400Million last year. They lost almost £150Million in the first 3 months of this year alone. They have a pension deficit of over £3Billion. So what do these idiots who claim to love the company they work for do? Vote to strike for 12 days during one of the most important times, financially, for BA.

Whenever a frontline service worker strikes, whether it's in the public or the private sector, it's going to annoy members of the public. The trick is to try and garner support and/or sympathy from the public. The unions representing BA have failed spectacularly by deciding to strike over the Christmas and New Year period when hundreds of thousands of people have chosen to fly BA to visit loved ones. These passengeers now have 3 choices. 1. Sit tight and hope that the disputes are settled so that their flights will still go. 2. Get their money back and cancel their Christmas trip. or 3. Get their money back and pay hugely over-the-odds to one of BAs many competitors who are now cashing in.

By all means strike. But why strike at a time that will cause maximum chaos for the innocent members of the public? Why not strike for 12 days early in the New Year?

Sadly, if this strike goes ahead, we could well be looking at the beginning of the end of British Airways in their present form. I wonder how the BA cabin crew who cheered so excitedly in the video below will feel working for a new start-up to replace BA on significantly inferior T's & C's compared to what they presently enjoy. Or even worse, unemployed.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v5zQ3PpjgM