BA: this is the biggest mistake in your history.
BA: this announcement is the biggest mistake in your history.
The recent announcement on dismissing and then re-employing the entire BA workforce is certainly the biggest mistake in aviation's history. Dismissal with the intent to re-employ on much lower working conditions during the largest global Crisis in modern history is an act against humanity. Immoral, unethical and illegal during a furlough scheme funded by the UK gov ready to extend it if necessary. Highly greedy and inhumane. An act of war against 12K loyal employees. Governments all around the world threw the standard rules of capitalism out of the window to protect the lives of millions of people. Unprecedented. This is what governments are meant to do during an unprecedented crisis of this magnitude. BA ignored the fact that Covid19 is a global pandemic and these are exceptional times. Unacceptable. It is certainly time to seriously "grill" these sociopaths who earn millions of £ per week (if we include all perks + bonuses) with the only aim to increase their power and personal wealth. Willie Walsh & Alex Cruz will have to respond of their actions in a UK Court of Law and in front of the UK Parliament Transport committee. CEOs and Senior Leaders are meant to get paid to protect the Company they manage & represent which is made of thousands of real people. This BA management style is outdated and the power of the web will finally remove the few sociopaths still left in power on these highly paid jobs. The UK government should actually regain full control of the British National carrier if Willie Walsh and Alex Cruz will not attend the meetings with the Parliament Transport Committee. BA should belong to its employees and government together. Both shareholders.
This BA act is simply a plan to reintroduce modern slavery through zero hours' style contracts which we must stop to protect the health and well being of our future generations.
This is much more serious than just saving 12K jobs. This is about saving our future generations from modern slavery and therefore avoid a huge mental health crisis exacerbated by medieval working conditions.
Let's hope the Government will step in and regain control of BA as this is a highly critical service essential for the British economy to survive and rebound, BA is the UK national carrier and it cannot be McDonaldised by a couple of sociopaths.
The NHS should be finally safe after the recent events, now it is BA's turn to be saved from ruin. We must save our national carrier. We all need to play our part now.
The UK government is already on it. MPs are furious, understandably.
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