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Equally, if the staff give the company what they want now, where does it end?
there will always be someone, somewhere with cheaper domestic costs willing to undercut, and due to the global freemarket that Britain PLC is so keen on, they all have access to our market.
That includes all types of businesses, maybe soon, someone willing to replace you.
Those who are against striking, perhaps you would like to go back to Victorian style pay and conditions - it's striking that won most of the improvements for workers in safety, pay, conditions etc
Striking for pay and conditions isn't really the same as striking against a business circling the drain though is it?
the Ba strike [i]is[/i] about pay and conditions though.
mudshark,
Painful though it might be in the short-term, maybe in the long-term, reducing the size of our airline industry might be a good thing?
Maybe BA is Rover?
If BA hasn't made a profit for 2 years (and I seem to remember it having similarly difficult patches in the past), then maybe it is just a duff business?
We might be better off without it? - Other airlines will grow, BAA will have to up its game, Heathrow might not get its third runway, high speed rail might look more attractive etc.