Guys, I wish you all the best with your action to receive a liveable london wage.
At BA we have decent pay and good conditions. But this isn't because BA is a fantastic employer that wants to throw money at us to retain us. It is down to ONE issue: the strength of our union. And the strength of our union is down to the percentage of members that are part of it.
The best thing any of you at Virgin can do is to motivate ALL the crew to join the union. I think at BA about 92% of us are in BASSA. At our last vote for industrial action, 96.1% of BASSA members voted for industrial action - on an eighty something percent return.
In other words, a strike would have completely grounded the airline.
A friend of mine has a flight booked with Virgin for January to NYC. He received an email today basically saying that nearly all flights would still operate on the strike dates. I think there was literally 4 or 5 cancellations listed.
I guess unfortunately for you guys striking, Virgin will still be able to maintain a decent operation due to the amount of crew who are not in a union and are not legally entitled to strike.