Well let's see how effective UNITE are against BA?
So far BA-1, UNITE-0.
Maybe they'll wish they'd kept the £11million as a 'fighting fund' or to pay their striking members when the time comes?
If there was a need, or indeed a possibility, of a pan-European pilots' union, then there have been several decades in which to organise one - result so far no union.
I may well be proved wrong but I'd bet BA would rather cease trading and re-organise themselves than give in to employee pressure. If they have the resources of Sir RB then UNITE may succeed, if not they are sure to fail - one way or the other.
The same will apply to low-cost operators when it comes to the pilot workforce. These people are hard men and a disorganised, wimpish pilot workforce are cannon fodder to the likes of MOL et al.
I bet MOL is quaking in his boots at the prospect of a European pilots' union - NOT!
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