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August 13, 2005
Heathrow Strikes...
I’m always amazed at how hard work is rarely defined by the sweat and toil involved in the task but how much money the worker earns. Therefore British Airways chief executive Sir Rod Eddington (the ‘Sir’ says it all) cannot see the utter insensitivity in his comment that;
‘It is a matter of huge disappointment that we have become embroiled in an issue which is not a dispute with British Airways and disrupted thousands of people who were about to take their hard-earned summer holidays.’
So those few who earn enough to be able to jet off to the Greek Islands (or wherever) whenever they can, deserve our sympathy because they have worked so goddamn hard for this privilege. Yet those low paid, mainly Asian workers who spend god knows how many hours a day in a sweaty putrid smelling kitchen just so the well-off can stuff their faces on the above trip, are apparently not even working hard enough to maintain their insulting wage of twelve grand a year.
It seems that now they are not even getting that as they have been sacked for refusing to sign a contract which would slash their pittance even further..On that wage in London they probably struggle to put a roof over their heads and dinner on the table
No summer holiday for their kids I guess.
Posted by purple elephant at August 13, 2005 10:49 PM