18th March 2010, 11:00 AM
some more news items:
this is how cross-union action can be effective -----"The three-day BA strike is set to escalate into a global dispute after powerful unions around the world vowed to back the walkout by 12,000 cabin crew." http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories...-22119863/
and this reminds us that there is more at issue than the specific pay and conditions of BA cabin crews ----"Yet, here's the rub. Yes, BA will lose ?100m in the strike, but the prize for it is much bigger. That prize is the decimation of Unite as a serious force in BA.....For this plan to work, the strike must go ahead and the strike must be defeated. That is why BA has spent inordinate amounts on ways to break it and why it has spent months intimidating cabin crew out of striking." http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/...regor-gall
this is how cross-union action can be effective -----"The three-day BA strike is set to escalate into a global dispute after powerful unions around the world vowed to back the walkout by 12,000 cabin crew." http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories...-22119863/
and this reminds us that there is more at issue than the specific pay and conditions of BA cabin crews ----"Yet, here's the rub. Yes, BA will lose ?100m in the strike, but the prize for it is much bigger. That prize is the decimation of Unite as a serious force in BA.....For this plan to work, the strike must go ahead and the strike must be defeated. That is why BA has spent inordinate amounts on ways to break it and why it has spent months intimidating cabin crew out of striking." http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/...regor-gall