Originally Posted by
What the Fug
If the unions won a majority to go strike why have they alienated so many of their members that they are ignoring the the outcome of the ballot?
Hundreds and hundreds of pages have been published on this forum asking the same question!
I'll make just a couple of observations of my own.
Firstly, the strike was always controversial. BA are losing money and are hurting badly in the current economic climate. As a result, BA have tried to negotiate, and eventually imposed changes in CC working practices. However, these are widely considered to be modest, there have been no compulsory redundancies, and no cuts in pay. Under the circumstances, a lot of CC have concluded that it would be self indulgent to support a strike which will further damage an already wounded company.
Secondly, however sorely some of the CC feel about the way BA have behaved, a lot of them recognise that it's still the best CC job in the UK airline industry, and the issues under dispute simply aren't worth losing salary, staff travel and possibly employment over. They may have voted 'Yes' but only to "send a message" to Willie Walsh; they never had any real intention of striking.