Originally Posted by am i bothered
Ridiculous. If its deemed that everyone has resigned the operation would grind to a halt. Not that it struggles at the best of times.
You are labouring under the delusion that everyone will refuse to sign. They won't. There are 3700 taking part time who will have that cancelled if they don't sign. There are full times who would rather keep a job than risk the sack. There are those who simply can't be bothered with a strike. There are those who do not understand what a strike would involve. There are those who do whats best for them and not BASSA (how many volunteered for Willing to Work against union instructions?). You'd be lucky to get even half of the crew to refuse to sign, and the rest will crumble when they realise they could be out of a job, and are relying on nothing more than the word of colleagues that they won't sign too.
This maybe easy to apply in an office but this is not the case here.
Offices generally aren't grossly overmanned. BA is carrying 30-50% more crew than legally required on most flights. Strip that out and you can lose a whole lot of crew and still keep flying. Cabin service will resume when numbers permit. Apparently Air France only use the legal minimum number of SEP qualified crew on an aircraft and the rest are their for service. How fast do you think they could train crew to do service only?
If this was a simple as some wish to dream ask yoursevles why has it not been done ages ago?
Because Eddington and Ayling didn't have the balls to do it. Thats the only reason it wasn't done.