RAT 5
Your comment "A 'threat to strike' for over 1 year is an empty threat".
Not at all in my view. A threat to strike is there to achieve certain ends. If those ends are achieved then the need to strike is then removed.
A bit like the 'cold war' really. If you push us we will drop the bomb. BA Pilots striking is the equivilant for BA management of a nuclear strike - BA management cannot return the bomb because the destruction is complete. (MAD = Mutually assured destruction).
So it seems to me like a high level game of 'brinkmanship' where both sides come to the conclusion that to go further could result in misery for all.
I guess that had it been necessary for the bomb to be dropped then out of the holocaust a new airline would form which would eventually provide employment for most. It does then beg the question of what T & C's would BA2, or whatever, provide.
Regards
Exeng
Last edited by exeng; 13th January 2007 at 22:38.