BA Strike - Your Thoughts & Questions II
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Never mind ... the CC thread is unravelling the latest distorted 'facts'.
I live in hope that some people will eventually be able to see the truth through the layers of tomato puree.
I live in hope that some people will eventually be able to see the truth through the layers of tomato puree.
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I don't think anything will happen until the next BASSA meeting on 6 September.
Oh to be a fly on the wall....
Oh to be a fly on the wall....
1. Many less than made the last one will turn up and the number will be multiplied 3-4 fold and posted on other thread by duty BASSA member.
2. There will be several speeches regarding bullying/imposition/comparisons with assorted wars and genocides.
3. There will be no announcement of a strike ballot just some time wasting bull about not giving BA any idea of their intentions (at least until BASSA have a clue what their own intentions are)
4. There will then be a vote where all present will agree with whatever the politburo just told them.
You arent expecting dissent are you?
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Gosh, that's a bit cynical! 
I was thinking along the lines of:
I was thinking along the lines of:
1. DH has a new job with Unite, and will see you OK once he's harvested the greenhouse.
2. WW is on the verge of resigning due to 'corporate stress'.
3. The next IA will involve all strikers blocking the M4 somewhere near Cardiff, or Bristol. "Bert's Burgers" has been engaged to do the catering.
4. All 11,823 BASSA members have already voted for the next round of IA. The date of the ballot will be announced shortly.
2. WW is on the verge of resigning due to 'corporate stress'.
3. The next IA will involve all strikers blocking the M4 somewhere near Cardiff, or Bristol. "Bert's Burgers" has been engaged to do the catering.
4. All 11,823 BASSA members have already voted for the next round of IA. The date of the ballot will be announced shortly.
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Identity crisis
Going by the posts by ptc on the main thread, the biggest problem that BA has is the use of codes that can identify temps and non-strikers on a flight and at a briefing. Somebody appears to have been extremely stupid or with malice aforethought in allocating codes of this nature.
Unless this is changed and all briefings are carried out under the charge of the Captain, nothing will change and the whole mess will continue to fester.
Just a view - rant over!!
Unless this is changed and all briefings are carried out under the charge of the Captain, nothing will change and the whole mess will continue to fester.
Just a view - rant over!!
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From another BASSA pseudo-apologist on t'other thread:
Yes, and some of them were surly, miserable, lazy and downright unwelcoming people before the dispute even started.
Even throughout this lengthy dispute, where some crew who are virtually bankrupt, with huge levels of stress, most still manage to provide outstanding customer service with a smile on their face.
Is there anyone else to be rude about??
Is there anyone else to be rude about??
The bassajunta-lovers have a brilliant record for upsetting people.
Obviously, they are rude about pilots...............who wouldn't be.
Then, they pick on the fellow Unite members, the Engineers, for their naturally awful maintenance of BA's planes.
Not happy with that, their Hyacinth Bucket snobbery comes in, and they slag-off (sic) the baggage handlers.
They've p***ed off any customers with 12 days of Christmas action.
They've compared themselves to the armed forces of the USA battling against the Japanese, so they upset both the Japanese and the USA.
Next come any participants in the Vietnam war..............
So they are running out of people to be rude about.
I can just imagine them sitting around in their bunker, excitedly talking about their new campaign. The junta are running out of ideas............they are desperate...........
...........and the Tomato comes up with, "let's be rude about McDonalds employees................after all, they do a more important job than us, work much harder, and get paid less, so let's be rude about them"....................and the duty poster over on the crew site is told to go and slag off the McDonalds workers.
"They could earn as much in a McDonalds."
Who to be rude about in next week's instalment? Can we wait?
The bassajunta-lovers have a brilliant record for upsetting people.
Obviously, they are rude about pilots...............who wouldn't be.
Then, they pick on the fellow Unite members, the Engineers, for their naturally awful maintenance of BA's planes.
Not happy with that, their Hyacinth Bucket snobbery comes in, and they slag-off (sic) the baggage handlers.
They've p***ed off any customers with 12 days of Christmas action.
They've compared themselves to the armed forces of the USA battling against the Japanese, so they upset both the Japanese and the USA.
Next come any participants in the Vietnam war..............
So they are running out of people to be rude about.
I can just imagine them sitting around in their bunker, excitedly talking about their new campaign. The junta are running out of ideas............they are desperate...........
...........and the Tomato comes up with, "let's be rude about McDonalds employees................after all, they do a more important job than us, work much harder, and get paid less, so let's be rude about them"....................and the duty poster over on the crew site is told to go and slag off the McDonalds workers.
"They could earn as much in a McDonalds."
Who to be rude about in next week's instalment? Can we wait?
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I'm surprised they haven't blamed the Labour Party, the Conservatives, the Lib-Dem, the Greens, the SNP, UKIP and the "Mainly-Zulu Inkatha Party" [of fond memory*].
Surely at least one of them could be held collectively responsible for failing to put pressure on WW?
[* one of those Media-created mandatory adjectives, like "giant" Hercules transport aircraft].
Surely at least one of them could be held collectively responsible for failing to put pressure on WW?
[* one of those Media-created mandatory adjectives, like "giant" Hercules transport aircraft].
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This thread gets more amusing......Posters just being as silly and abusive as those they mock......
Rumour fuelling without a shred of evidence....
Perhaps the discussion should stick with the facts and maybe posters should act as they seem to want BASSA posters to act.... Lead by example??
But, then again, if it's all that fills lives I suppose it should be forgiven.
Rumour fuelling without a shred of evidence....
Perhaps the discussion should stick with the facts and maybe posters should act as they seem to want BASSA posters to act.... Lead by example??
But, then again, if it's all that fills lives I suppose it should be forgiven.
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Just heard on BBC News 24 that Arthur Scargill has been expelled from the NUM.
I hope for CC's sake it doesn't take them 30 years to resolve this dispute in a similar fashion ......... !!
I hope for CC's sake it doesn't take them 30 years to resolve this dispute in a similar fashion ......... !!
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Do chill out, old boy. I've watched this dispute for 20 months now, and generally I have made sensible comments.
Importing a little Jet Blast in to a currently boring thread is no bad thing.
As to "humour" - where is Tracey Island? Google maps denies its existence. It wouldn't be a humourous reference to a cartoon, would it.
Do chill out, old boy. I've watched this dispute for 20 months now, and generally I have made sensible comments.
Importing a little Jet Blast in to a currently boring thread is no bad thing.
As to "humour" - where is Tracey Island? Google maps denies its existence. It wouldn't be a humourous reference to a cartoon, would it.
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Agreeing with AO, as I seem to be one of the 'accused'.
Putting on my sack-cloth and ashes and not even trying to be amusing any more.
Putting on my sack-cloth and ashes and not even trying to be amusing any more.
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So you are complaining about their actions but condoning the same action by posters on here?
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I never said that people did not have a right to feel aggrieved....So his post was lengthy and not needed.
Nothing has changed...
Oh yes, to confirm I am not backing BASSA in this dispute as I think their behaviour lost them the right of any backing.....
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Who woke up Miss M?
I see on the other thread that somebody has woken up Miss M. She is back spouting the same old same old, but with a degree more vitriol this time. Anyone apparently who signed the BA deal has signed away their job. The only way to save those same jobs it seems is the strike. Other posters have tried to reason that the strike weapon in this situation is a busted flush. But apparently everyone else is wrong, including of course the pilots, who will not be geting any service from this young lady. It is such a pity, because she could be a valuable member of crew, having several languages and years of seniority with the resultant experience, so sadly we may not see her bright smile and her highly coloured eye make up on flights in the future.