Owen Stanley: To be fair (which is hard for me as an ex-B.A employee who dislikes them as much as the next man), actually yes, in the good times they did share the love around a bit. It was called profit share, and let's not forget that in the good times, many people actually got half decent payrises negotiated.
To those that think that the company going under is someone elses problem, just remember that when you're sitting in your hotel room in Lagos waiting to report for you contract job thousands of miles away from home because it's the only thing you could get after the local job market was flooded with people who didn't think it was "their problem"........