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I hate over powerful unions holding the nation to ransom
But they are not holding the nation to ransom. They are attempting to hold their management to ransom. The rest of the nation will just shrug their shoulders and book elsewhere.
The UK no longer has sympathy for this kind of action unless it's people like the nurses, and CC have NEVER been considered in the same over-worked, underprivileged breath as nurses! It's no good the CC waking up now to smell the coffee - it's already gone cold.
El Grifo is correct that the mgmt would hope to lay them all off but - if the CC had negotiated a reduction in pay, Ts&Cs, then they might still have a job.
I used to say that BA would not be under it's present ownership within 10 years. I just reduced that to under 5 - irrespective of whether the strike goes ahead.