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  • BA won’t pay

    BA won’t pay

    17th June 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    It’s a real shame that BA’s CEO Willie Walsh isn’t a warm and cuddly personality. We might view yesterday’s revelation that 40,000 staff have been asked to work for no pay for up to four weeks, made via the company’s in-house newspaper in a different light. In a ‘we’re in this together’ light perhaps.

    The offer: “Colleagues are being urged to help the airline’s cash-saving drive by signing up for unpaid...

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  • Gordon Brown survives another day

    Gordon Brown survives another day

    9th June 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    Yesterday, in a Parliamentary Labour Party meeting, 50 signatures were needed in a letter to force Gordon Brown to quit. Only 20 were collected. And with the banging of desks reverberating behind closed doors in Whitehall, Mr Brown survived another day.

    And the PM promised, “to play to my strengths and address my weaknesses”. So, policy aside for one moment, all of this boils down to leadership style and the resulting...

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  • Jacqui Smith, British Home Secretary to resign

    Jacqui Smith, British Home Secretary to resign

    3rd June 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    I have been consciously avoiding writing about MP’s expenses – enough is being said in the press. Suffice to say that this must have been going on for some time and the change in economic climate has no doubt provoked our questioning, and fuelled our outrage. Very simply, rules should be clear and where money is concerned, super duper crystal clear. Oh, and expense claims should be independently checked before...

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