Can we not all step back from thinking whose got the biggest.
How are we going to solve this and solve it we will?
This has gone beyond a simple dispute between a company and a section of its staff.
It is now about politics, no one cares whether you are a loyal BA employee or a cc member (I only make the distinction because the cc are currently perceived as the niggers in the woodpile -sorry that in this day and age that is non- PC).
We can have the 12 days of strike and yes it is Christmas but BA crew work 365 days per year and does Christmas really matter.
Who are the winners and losers?
BA cabin crew will lose 12 days of pay and, as someone said, it will take several years to make that up.
BA may go bust and there will be another x'000 people unemployed.
The customers will still have to travel and will find alternative carriers maybe taking their custom out of the UK.
The politicians will crow but wont stop claiming from you and I for their towers and duck houses.
The union leaders will forget about it as they gather the troops to lead others to redundancy.
So who will win?
Nobody and isn't that what is wrong with the UK today, we have lost the will to win.