When BA took over selected parts of DanAir in 1991,it imposed a 5% pay cut on what was then one of the lowest paid airlines in the country. Naturally, those subjected to this pay cut had to accept it as the alternative was to seek a job in a market which had just been enlarge by approx 500(ex DanAir) job seekers. What the bean counters and jam stealers never put into their finacial considertions was the resentment this engendered in those people. When you consider the post by " I am an army of one"
and realise that this mind set existed 10 years ago, the financial losses to a major airline far outweighed the short term benefits which accrued from their imposing the 5% pay cut, which in any case was rescinded a few years later and presented as a pay rise. Naturally this did not botherthe individual who had first sugested the imposition of the pay cut for he had moved on to to greater things , boosted by the fact that he had, on paper, achieved savings fervthe company.
With age comes wisdom, but very slowly!!!