Point Seven: When you've finished all of your posturing, the brass tacks are that the folks who suffer most from this episode are the folks who can do nothing about it (no, not ATC!!). THE PAX.
They really are getting the sh**ty end of the stick. After all, they are only tring to get home/away.
There are ways and means of taking industrial action, strikes are an entirely valid method of making a point to an intransigent management IMHO. However, a sneaky, co-ordinated mass walk out without union approval is NOT. The whole world is hard done to and to think that you're more hard done to than the next guy is pathetic. There are people out there without jobs, starving and being forced to do crap for f**k all.
My message to you all is, yeah, strike if you need to but, for the love of God, go the right way about it so that the travelling public can at least make arrangements to avoid the outcome.
Well said, Point Seven!
You have to ask yourself, if things are really this bad, why isn't the union taking the lead and organising a proper,
legal strike that allows the innocent victims to plan around it? Never mind the complaints that staff have about the management - what complaints do they have about their union that we aren't hearing about?