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What is happening is under a whole new set of circumstances both financial and corporate. Investors are watching the outcome of the IAG actions at Iberia like hawks. Many investment agencies have a hold on IAG shares with a future investment tag on them pending the outcome of rationalisation at IB.
This has nothing to do with either workforce, neither does it have anything to do with 'who has what'. IAG is pegged as a future investment as BA has been rationalised with a strong, cohesive and viable forward business plan. The investors want to see the same for IB. Once the two are 'on track' then IAG will be a strong investment vehicle.
This is what the board and the institutional investors are looking at.....the share price graph. Sadly you, I and all the other employees will merely be pawns in this big investment game.
What Count and Wonker are driveling has nothing whatsoever to do with your dispute. It will be you and your colleagues who fight this out. Advice from two (one?) former member(s) of a Union that failed utterley in its bid to strong arm the company is advice worth leaving well alone.
The only thing amusing in this thread is the ever new and inventive ways that those two (one?) try to spin a victory out of what was BA merely taking toys away and waiting for the tantums to stop. When BASSA got the toys back they claimed a victory. They will try an heap blame, scorn and reprisals on everyone else they think had a hand in their demise. The easiest way to salve your own conscience is to blame someone else. However they spin it BASSA made its own bed. No-one else in the company, including many departments staffed by Unite members, agreed with their position. But, according to BASSA, they were right, we were wrong. Thus has it always been so for BASSA. They lost everything else the company demanded of them and by allowing the inception of mixed fleet they gifted BA with a staff costs vehicle that provided huge savings into the future. The fact that MF can join Unite is totally irrelevant, the position of 'strongarm' that BASSA once had and their ability to influence the daily running of the airline at BA is now a distant, fading memory.
Last edited by Wirbelsturm; 10th Jan 2013 at 14:04.