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Originally Posted by The_Judge
Obviously, they are trying to get the company to cave in. No better time to try a strike than over the biggest holiday of the year. In this case, I'd say they have the company by the short hairs and will probably at least get some sort of concession. Pretty tacky of them to threaten to do this and completely screw thousands and thousands of people though. They could have waited until after the holiday to flex their mighty unity.
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The same tactic was used this year by grocery workers for two of Arizona's biggest chains. Even though they had been working without a contract for months they called for a strike one week before Thanksgiving. The companies and the union reached an agreement with only hours left until the strike deadline.
I think that's what will happen with the BA situation. Can you imagine the chaos if BA starts massive flight cancellations? With all of the capacity cuts over the past year or so other airlines simply won't have the seats to accommodate all of the displaced BA passengers. If it does happen it's gonna be messy!