Originally Posted by
Entaxei
With regard to "union bashing"; in the present political climate of the unions rising up en masse against the government and calling for multiple industrial action, and the current state of the union/branches involved in the BA dispute who seem to be following this lead, I find it very hard, if not impossible to find any trace of any element involved who appear to be actively looking after their members interests, other than trying to claim that all those dismissed were playing harmless jokes and nobody should suffer any loss for going on strike.
If your only information is gleaned from the Daily Mail, Telegraph etc then that is how you would see it. However, in the real world you are all so fond of quoting, the TU's look after thousands of cases daily. They and their legal departments do far more good than harm for many ordinary members who don't give a toss about the politics.
It's easy to generalise and doesn't exactly take any intelligence. It would be easy to say that British Management are some of the worst in the world. Although true of a large minority of British Managers it would not be fair or useful to generalise and put them all in the same boat.
BASSA screwed up and the Top table compounded it......It certainly doesn't affect many Union members in other industries. In fact you will find that life just goes on and they wouldn't know or care about what is happening at BA. They have far more to worry about. ...
