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Old 9th Sep 2010, 05:59
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ChicoG
 
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If you read the comments on the Guardian thread, there are some truly hilarious attempts by BASSAmentalists to try and spin things. Witness these two choice examples:

In a nutshell, cabin crew claimed an average of 10 days strike pay because of several variables. If one works part time, the strike days may have only affected you for 3 or 4 days due to your working pattern. Even for those on full time one could have been on annual leave, one could have been out of the UK over the strike period and it was only London departures that were affected. There were cabin crew who claimed 22 days strike pay and there were those that claimed one or two days so the 10 days was an average. Also factor in that the crew at London Gatwick went into work over the strike period with a tiny percentage going on strike. So if all the figures are boiled down you will probably find that 80% of those who were due to work from Heathrow went on strike which reflected, more or less, the result of the ballot to strike.
In case you are wondering why London Gatwick crew went to work, the operation at London Gatwick is BA all but a uniform. The operation there is made up of remnants of buy outs and mergers and the contracts that the crew operate on have always been different to those at Heathrow.
Life is different on the planet BASSA.



( Article here: BA strike 'inevitable', says union | Business | guardian.co.uk )
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