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height="100%"> I'm no expert when it comes to money, but I don't think they would be able to carry on operating as they would not have access to any credit to continue the day to day running and paying of bills etc. Regards

height="100%"> quote: Originally posted by slinky09 BUT union bashing is easy because the perception is that unions only ever want more or are intransigent. I've learnt over time that this is not always the case, and, that view leaves the other party free of any blame ... The socialist in me would normally agree, but having watched Unite mis-manage the Virgin dispute, I see their abilities in this area led by wrong-headedness.

height="100%"> quote: Originally posted by Pete Obviously BA aren't planning to strike over coffee, rather 10% redundancies and a two year pay freeze, but sometimes I do wonder whether Unite, et al, aren't being a bit blind to the economic realities out there at the moment. Everyone's playing the moral hazard game now. They assume the govt won't let BA fail, so unions and mgmt are playing hardball to get as...

height="100%"> I wouldn't put money on the UK government bailing them out. In previous years they have made very health profits and should have made provisions for time of famine. The winners will be all the other carriers waiting to take the flying public's money.

height="100%"> Unite members believe that BA is attacking an unjustifiable number of their working conditions in an attempt to force a more structural change than is necessary. They have also proposed a number of changes that help BA cut, cost but BA is refusing to discuss those, only the agenda it has and items it wants to cut. I don't agree with this strike now, many CC are probably heads in the sand, change does need to...

height="100%"> I doubt very much it will happen. From what I undersatand BA have a legal team working on it and I doubt both WW and the union will bash something out. It will be very very short sighted for it to happen. If it does all go wrong I can see the airline restructure and a new crew company on new terms.

height="100%"> Playing Hardball may be all well and good, but I think this is not the time and suspect the damage may already be done if the Daily Mail wants to put this up tomorrow morning as yet another systemic failure of the current Government. It will turn people away for a long time to come buns

> I was in the unfortunate position of being downgraded on a revenue fare from WT+ to WT on my flight yesteerday from Sao Paolo to LHR - an 11 hour flight in WT+ is not great but a damn sight better than WT. Check-in said that I would have been upgraded (or probably more likely someone else would have been) but Club was also full. Unfortunately I was connecting from Rio and therefore checked in last (and was denied on line check in). In...

height="100%"> quote: Originally posted by Dreamflight I doubt very much it will happen. From what I undersatand BA have a legal team working on it and I doubt both WW and the union will bash something out. It will be very very short sighted for it to happen. If it does all go wrong I can see the airline restructure and a new crew company on new terms. Not sure what BA can do legally. There was a 90%+ vote in favour on an 80%+...

height="100%"> Unite strikes me as pretty self serving publicity seeking union, they inflame members and give them false hope and then do a backroom deal with management wether union members like it or not. Didn't see much sympathy from BA CC during the VA dispute. That Walsh bloke always came accross as a little door handle to me but his message on the BA website reads pretty factual to me. Although he did say BA was best...