They also had a number of crew sacked for a number of petty things, their union supported the claims for unfair dissmissal and even won a little compensation for some, but aer lingus just didn't seem to care about these claims of unfair sacking, they just did it anyhow! Could virgin do this??
I wouldn't put it past them.
An office-based friend of mine was sacked last year because he was posting airline-related information on a website (ie, the specifics of which aircraft operated a particular route). Not withstanding the fact that much of this information is of public record, they treated it as discussing company confidential info. His feeling was that they used that as the excuse to get rid of him 'cos his manager didn't always see eye-to-eye with him. So I guess that means the Company will be ruthless when it needs to be; so strikers need to watch their back and ensure they're not caught doing anything at all which they could be pulled up on. Including posting company info on public websites. Ah... balls.
