it is such a sad indicment of this country that a company can only be deemed succesful by how much profit it makes and not by how it treats its workforce
Three things used to shape our society... Moral cause, Social responsibility and Financial need. Now there is only one - Financial greed has replaced Financial need.
Willie Walsh speaks of social responsibility in one breath whilst screwing the workforce in the next. His generation of businessmen will pride themselves on making a buck from whatever they can, be it degrading a well respected product or demoralising the workforce..... And he will take pride in doing it.
The next time your BA flight is cancelled look very carefully at the reasons for it. They will now cancel and consolidate flights at the drop of a hat, any old excuse will do as long as it diverts any blame away from BA. They end up are saving costs by flying fewer planes...... and they get away with it as nobody understands the inner workings of aviation. Is this what we expect of our national airline?
What sort of socially responsible manager takes advantage of poor foreign labour laws and make long serving International Cabin Crew redundant in order to re-employ them on lesser T&C with forced retirement at 45.
Fair Trade ?!?!
His generation will make a buck wherever they can with no morals whatsoever.... They will do whatever they can get away with. It is time this generation were held to account.