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Old 9th Feb 2006, 22:14
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halfbiscuit
 
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Usual management spin

According to the BBC :

During this exercise, 14,000 BA staff have attended around 900 briefing sessions. A recent MORI poll showed that more than half of them agreed the deficit was a threat to the airline's survival, while two-thirds thought the scheme needed to be changed.
By my reckoning 14,000 is about 33% of the workforce. I believe there were fewer than 4000 responses to the MORI poll. It would be quite nice to see the survey questions and responses published. Doesn't sound like an overwhelming majority in favour of cutting their own benefits to provide lovely management benefits.

I know BA aren't alone in this but it's a bit sad that our management can't think of anything more creative than cutting staff costs to boost profits. Although costs are plainly an issue perhaps something radical like selling more tickets might help.

Yup, I'm with you guys. Lets hope our ground staff unions are a bit less supine than usual.
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