Bitter Ashes
26th October 2009, 13:27
They're in the news again. Finaly UNITE has woken up and said it'll call a ballot. You may remember that earlier this year BA asked its staff to work for free for a month with the promise that if workers took them up on the offer then pay and jobs would not be cut. A month later, the pilots were asked to volunteer to have thier pay cut by 2.6%. Niavely, a lot of workers took them up on those "offers" and look where it's got them. Massive job cuts, a pay freeze and youth discrimination in the form of a pay cut for new starters.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20091026/tuk-uk-britain-ba-strike-fa6b408.html
That guy in the picture is supposed to be taking a photo on his phone. I prefer to interpret it as him giving BA the finger. Also in case you were wondering, Willie Walsh, CEO of BA gets a £735k salary + £700k bonuses, after he awarded himself a pay rise last summer during a time when BA was experiancing record losses. That makes 2% of BA's losses directly accountable to the pay packet of one man!
Meanwhile, prices are still rocketting up on everything from a loaf of bread and tin of beans, to paying off the mortgage. A pay freeze is a pay cut, end of. No ammount of claiming that the intrest rate is 0.5% is going to convince me that prices in the shops arent going up at least 15% a year.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20091026/tuk-uk-britain-ba-strike-fa6b408.html
That guy in the picture is supposed to be taking a photo on his phone. I prefer to interpret it as him giving BA the finger. Also in case you were wondering, Willie Walsh, CEO of BA gets a £735k salary + £700k bonuses, after he awarded himself a pay rise last summer during a time when BA was experiancing record losses. That makes 2% of BA's losses directly accountable to the pay packet of one man!
Meanwhile, prices are still rocketting up on everything from a loaf of bread and tin of beans, to paying off the mortgage. A pay freeze is a pay cut, end of. No ammount of claiming that the intrest rate is 0.5% is going to convince me that prices in the shops arent going up at least 15% a year.