Litebulbs Quote:
To be fair to the cabin crew community, they did not reduce the headcount in their department by 1000, BA did. That is a 1000 (well whatever the real figure is, if you take into account part time etc,) people that for no fault of their own, no longer work for BA. It was by imposition, which may or may not turn out to be legal, but a 1000 equivalent jobs have been lost. Is that not an emotive issue? Because of that, the remaining employees are having to work harder (no doubt people will ask harder relative to what?) and their is a spectre of a two tier work force at LHR.
Litebulbs,
To be fair, the cabin crew community weren't forced to leave BA. It is through no fault of BA that the cabin crew who left, chose Voluntary Redundancy
The above was my response to Litebulbs, posted on the 8th of February.
HiFlyer14
There was an imposed reduction in headcount of 1000 employees. And Mealchucker you are absolutely right - it was all done voluntarily. So why are Unite so hung up about this?
Litebulbs,
I stated the same as the posters quoted here, previously. UNITE appear to have a fixation about the word 'Imposition.'