Bealine, I understand and sympathise with your comments and your final plea!
Our day will come when we can exact vengeance on the people who are really responsible for this fiasco. Once the recesiion eases and job vacancies return, many good people with years of experience, the airlines' and handlers' real assets, will disappear and leave their former employers in the lurch!
This will never happen. There is no way BA or any other company will sit down in the future and say we're in this mess because of actions taken a few years ago. They will have moved on and will take steps to rectify the situation at the time. As hard as it is to accept, nobody is indispensable and nobody leaving will ever leave BA in the lurch. It's a nice thought but BA is far too big and for every one person leaving BA there is many many waiting to take their place. Like most companies today BA simply need to have a person in a position that can perform a given job at the time it is required. This of course does not apply to BA alone, unfortunately it's the way the world is today.