Well, talking to one of VA's reps, I was told VA, at one stage, was getting really cheesed off that their aircraft were being damaged on an almost weekly basis. The low light being the damaged wing tip on the brand new, never seen service, VA A330 recently.
Another observation that was made, in respect to the diversity of imported labour, was practice of the different ethnic groups speaking their own languages on the job. It was pointed out that this is very bad for safety, as everyone on the aircraft should know and understand what others are doing. In fact the rep said, in his experience overseas, it should be mandated that one language only be used on the job, in this case english.