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Aug. 12th, 2005 02:05 pmBA workers at Heathrow on a wildcat strike in sympathy with colleagues who were sacked, without notice, from the BA food provision sub contrator, Gate Gourmet.
My dad works for BA. Not that long ago, post 9/11 when the airline industry was going through a very rough patch, he was on a 4-day week and looking at the very real possibility of having to take redundancy because the company couldn't afford to keep everyone on. He stuck with them though, and he's still there now. So don't tell me that BA workers aren't loyal to their company just because they believe in their rights as workers. Being unionised doesn't make you a bad, disloyal or troublesome worker. It just means that you believe in something. And unless you're a capitalist pig, that's a good thing.
My dad works for BA. Not that long ago, post 9/11 when the airline industry was going through a very rough patch, he was on a 4-day week and looking at the very real possibility of having to take redundancy because the company couldn't afford to keep everyone on. He stuck with them though, and he's still there now. So don't tell me that BA workers aren't loyal to their company just because they believe in their rights as workers. Being unionised doesn't make you a bad, disloyal or troublesome worker. It just means that you believe in something. And unless you're a capitalist pig, that's a good thing.
