If 1000+ CC reported sick during the strike days then maybe, just maybe, we have discovered the reason for the discrepancy between the Union's 7000+ strikers claiming strike pay and BA's 4963 who went on strike?
I can't begin to unravel the ramifications of who is being dishonest and how their dishonesty is benefitting them from which source (i.e. Union strike pay vs BA "genuinely sick" pay) but, if this report is true, there could well be a discrepancy of, say, 1500 which is in the right ball-park.
I could also believe that faced with a strike or work decision on the morning of a rostered/strike day a significant number of CC would take the "going genuinely sick" option as a way of putting their heads in the sand rather than face taking one side or the other with its associated potential repercussions.
Last edited by AV Flyer; 2nd Dec 2010 at 13:21.