The other side of the coin:
1.Work harder at school;
2. Choose a different career; and
3. If you must strike don't choose the Christmas period.
Striking at Christmas does nothing to further your cause and gives management the opportunity to gain the high ground ...
i presume there'll be no BA advert running showing lots of happy families meeting and greeting over the Christmas period.
How times have changed - I always thought the ambitions of cabin crew were to travel the World and marry a pilot ... now they want a decent wage as well ... there's no pleasing some folk