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Globalisation allowed corporations avoid any affinity with their country of incorporation, they were able to abandon any social contract, avoid taxation and importantly widen the net for employees.
Companies like Ryan Air grew from the dark realisation that a gloablised workforce could be sourced at 'low cost' from an increasing number of places.
Zero hour contracts, the ultimate in flexibility. Like the past era of lining up at a business on any given day hoping to be picked from the crowd it represented the high water mark of adversarial employment relations.
Increasingly as the western hemisphere has declined concentrating wealth in fewer and fewer hands, there is a growing awareness that the pendulum swung too far one way.
As it was for generations past, the collective standing together will eventually wrestle balance.
This is a necessary first step and a myriad of other dark airline IR departments are watching developments carefully.
The way this 'company' has been permitted to 'operate' is a disgrace and the courts are beginning to recognise it.
Bonderman and O'Leary are modern day robber barons, history will record them as such for they are a stain.
Curious though, BA is all over the world, so what governs their actions? UK Law or the law of the country they operate in? Do they have crew bases outside of the UK and if so what law prevales?