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Well, I'm not sure how many current Gate Gourmet employees used to be BA employees, but the reality is that the BA catering was first bought by Swissair, who subsequently went bust, and they were then taken over by an American venture capital company. BA are at least twice removed from responsibility for Gate Gourmet employees.
It looks, to me, like the TGWU which represents both BA and GG staff has been making mischief and getting away with it. The GG staff were in a straight fight with their employers, and the union knew full fine well that there is no way that BA would sack their staff for walking out.
This industry represents the last opportunity for the anachronistic dinosaur of the TGWU to flex its muscles and they do it. I really do not see where BA went wrong here, maybe they did squeeze their catering supplier, but that is all part of business in a free market.
Virgin pulled the plug on Gate Gourmet this year and their staff did not down tools in sympathy did they? Business is business, and customers should come first. The BA staff who went on strike should be ashamed of themselves. If they want to show support for employees of other firms there are better ways of doing it than forcing poor saps to spend four nights in a carpark outside the airport.
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