Just heard on BBC business news that Ford are putting one of its plants on a 4 days week for a month. The transit and Freelander/Jaguar plants are affected. There were no reports of unions going to the barricades over it. No doubt others will follow. So what's the difference at RYR? Reduced capacity/productivity = reduced labour force, even if temporary.
What I do find disappointing is that new a/c are being placed at new bases and having to be flown by new or BRK crews. Surely the homespun employees at one base should be offered the chance to operate from another base and so keep their incomes before new comers are employeed within the network? Is that not the moral stance?