BA staff asked to work free for a month; chief executive on 725k a year
Jun 18 2009 20:10
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jun/16/british-airways-staff-pay-month
What a gobshite that Walsh is.
Jun 18 2009 21:19
#2
I am sure hundreds of staff have "expressed an interest" - doubt if it is for working for free. 
Jun 19 2009 07:31
#3
Jul 4 2009 10:21
#4
Edit: wasn't sure where to put this so added to this thread.
BT is getting in on the act, offering staff 25% of their salary upfront to take a year off work.
Quote:
A company spokesman said: "BT is known for its progressive human resources policies with flexible working. Being one of the largest employers in the UK I think this is an extremely progressive way of managing costs during a recession, rather than making redundancies." The company said it had "a tradition of innovation for flexible working practices", including home-working, sabbaticals and secondments. "These are innovative ways to help keep employees during these tough economic times," it added.
You could take out the word 'BT' and replace it with 'Britain' and it'd still be true
Jul 4 2009 16:51
#5
Whenever I see that little squirt Willie Walsh on TV, I think, 'Willie Wanker' (no, correction, I say it - and I know the TV can't hear you, or answer back).
Jul 5 2009 06:19
#6
Refused's graphic is priceless...
I hope that the crisis can only serve capital when the wage retreat is orderly...
Enough panic and things might not work out as well.
Anyway, we can hope...
The bastards...
Jul 6 2009 17:52
#7
BA staff held a 'mass meeting' (according to this evenings BBC news) and decided to reject BAs cost cutting plans:
Quote:
Staff said they were not prepared to accept an "assault" on their pay, terms and conditions.
Depressingly, though, they've decided to back the Unite unions plan to a pay freeze instead, which the union characterised as:
Quote:
A Unite spokesman said: "Our members have shown that feelings are running very high. They have sent a very clear message that they don't want us to make any further concessions that would lead to an assault on their terms and conditions."
So the members don't want to make more concessions.... so the union proposes a pay freeze and gets them to accept this as an 'alternative'.
Jul 6 2009 18:13
#8
Elsewhere it was reported that a few hundred - maybe 800 - workers expressed an interest in either working for a free or taking some unpaid leave.
You can bet that the vast majority of these would be to take unpaid leave - because if you're not being paid why the fuck would you go to work?!
Jul 6 2009 18:19
#9
According to this guardian article:
Quote:
BA said last month that 7,000 staff had applied for voluntary pay cuts, including 800 who agreed to work for nothing for up to a month. BA chief executive, Willie Walsh, who has given up his pay for July, said it had been a "fantastic" response.
Jul 7 2009 19:06
#10
A mate's daughter and her husband works for the cabin crew for BA out of Heathrow. She's told him that they want to cut the 5 day allocation for Singapore down to 3 days cutting out the 2 days randr for breaching time zones. They also wanted to reduce the basic to eleven grand (thus affecting pensions and holiday pay), even lower than the last wage cut imposed by BA and Unite.
Jul 7 2009 22:48
#11
You're mad baboon. How could the bosses at BA ever get together and be cunning enough to do something like that?
Jul 8 2009 05:50
#12
What the fuck?!?
Excuse me while I pick my jaw off the desk...
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah right.