Originally Posted by
Gove N.T.
Sad really.
who are the real,losers in this game of who has a bigger whatzit? Well, it’s people who can only go on holiday during school holidays with their families.
Blame to employer, no blame to striker
I have a young family in the UK whose holiday is during the period mentioned.
travelling with 4 and 2 year old is stressful enough and now the stress of not knowing whether you will fly or not adds further stress.
As usual, it’s the user at suffers and the providers just don’t care
I know many ryanair pilots have have not had a summer holiday for years with their family to the companies broken leave system.
No strike is called to upset the public. People dont want to strike, its normally the last resort to a complete breakdown in relations.
If you take the mentality of it will “inconvenience” someone and the right to withdraw labour is removed, then what is there to stop the slippery slope of wages and terms getting cut?
Ryanair recently contractorised an entire country overnight in Poland last year with the creation of Ryanair sun. precisely because there is very limited workers rights there, so they could get away with it, and they did.
An entire country of its staff had its holiday rights, sick pay, pension, social security payments all removed and placed on a zero hour contract, because there was nothing the staff could do about it.
Remember years ago, the change in the fashion industry where by it become frowned upon to purchase something from a sweatshop, its incredible that same mentality has not translated to air fares.