Saturday 29 May 2010

Strike Take 2

Day one two and three on the picket line had temperatures soring into the 80's and lots of burnt crew, some with sun stroke, which probably made day four when i arrived at 0930 a little quiet, it was drizzly, i attended the Hatton Cross Picket line with the group of 14 ( all that is allowed by law per picket line but they are rotated every 45 minutes to an hour. Horns were honked from cars in support of our Industrial action but also we will always get verbal abuse and he odd finger gesture.
The open topped double decker is a great 40 minute journey around Heathrow, it allows crew to scream SHAME ON YOU SCABIN CREW in various locations like the crew car park, back to back hotel and cranebank training centre. I am so amazed that scabs actually go into work, previous crew members from the 80's abd early 90's fought for the terms, conditions and pay that we have now, many crew left charter airlines for these reasons and now, some, are willing to return to charter terms and conditions and not put up a fight....i say....SHAME ON YOU!!
I am currently on strike, i will lose £80 per day for the 6 days i missed with my trip + days off totally £480.00 out of Junes Pay slip.
People think we are militants and we want all this, this could not be further from the truth, we want a fair deal, we are willing to help make savings, we want to get back to normality and do the job we all love but we have a massive Irish brick wall in our way. Gosh i wish this nightmare would all end, i am poor, upset, unhappy and completely miserable, i have also lost many many friends who have decided to not support the cause and i really have no time for them now, or indeed any time in the future, such a shame but scabs ( yes the word exists in the dictionary and is described as " someone who crosses an official picket line and goes to work" so i am not saying a bad word.








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