"BA also claimed that the majority of crew worked during the dispute but we have processed over 7,000 claims for strike pay - that means 70% of Heathrow crew, the backbone of the BA operation, took strike action." - but does that include each striker making more than one possibly two claims? Doesn't look so impressive then does it?
My bold. If anybody want to claim that CC are the backbone of the BA operation, surely it should be LGW crew who are the backbone, as we turned up for work (bar 2%)?
Before anyone jumps down my throat, so to speak, I know that the backbone of BA is constructed of all departments within the company (apart from Bassa of course but they're not really a part of BA)