Obama in his recent interview with Prince Harry, talked about the inability of workers to unionise effectively across boarders in our new globalised world. I couldn’t help but think of the current situation at Ryanair.
The fact of the matter is a lot of these institutions like the EU work to benefit the big corporations, whilst forgetting about the ordinary man and woman. That’s why there is ultimately so much disillusionment with the EU. If the EU had of brought more benefits to the people, like the elimination of roaming charges when we use our mobiles within the EU, then perhaps we wouldn’t have Brexit. Being able to Unionise across the EU is something we desperately need.
Anyhow, why doesn’t the likes of ALPA branch out into EU? They seem to be much more effective at collective bargaining! I think the likes of BALPA is too gentlemanly for its own good, you have to play these CEOs at their own game.