Gordon Brown appears somewhat disingenuous in his handling of the BA strike dispute. The Unite union, which is behind the action, is a big Labour donor and its Deputy General Secretary is a prospective Labour MP and the husband of Harriet Harman. But yesterday transport minister Lord Adonis openly condemned the strike. Votes maybe?.
Planes need two wings to fly. And perhaps the same goes for political parties in this day and age. There is one problem: Two wings make planes fly straight, but tend to make political parties fly round in circles."
The PM is probably muttering at this very moment: "Lets hope we can just land the damn thing before the election."
Monday, 15 March 2010
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I am in favour of strike action
ReplyDeleteSeems that the union and staff really don't want a strike and have bent over backwards to try and come up with a deal, even offering a pay cut.
ReplyDeleteSorry for customers obviously but then those silly enough to book with BA after the original planned strike gets everything they deserve. Do you people not learn?
ReplyDeleteB.A have had time to come up with a plan to counter the strike. Unite only give full support to disputes they can win(fuel tanker drivers etc.)
ReplyDeleteWithout public support and alternative carriers eager to fill the breach this dispute will reach a swift conclusion.
Lord Adonis was on Andrew Marr's programme & when asked why the government hadn't intervened & was it true that Unite had bunged the Labour party 11 million he completely evaded the issue
ReplyDeleteI have nothing to add
ReplyDeleteNor have I
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