According to reports, British Airways staff who are opposed to the strike by cabin crew have been threatened and abused in the run up to the industrial action. Emails that were posted late last Friday evening revealed some chilling and unsettlingly messages. One email has been said to say something around the lines of if that person went into work tomorrow (which would have been Saturday), there life would not be worth living.

Just hours earlier, as the news spread among British Airways cabin crew that the last attempt at talks between the airline and the union had failed, a ton of text messages had been fired off to staff members who are still brave enough to voice their opinion on the matter. Most of the messages simply told these British Airways staff members that they were scrum and scabs if they crossed the picket line to begin their shifts on Saturday.

One lady said that she was not shocked at all when these kinds of messages started to find their way to her in box and to her mobile phone. Around Christmas, when this lady was utterly disillusioned with the militant faction in her union Unite, she and five other colleagues chose to set up an alternative group to the union. She said that this alternative group was for the hundreds of staff that did not support the Unite union’s aggressive policies and its determination to steer its members into strike action.

This lady, who is too scared to give her real name, thought that she would be busy enrolling new members to the Professional Cabin Crew Council and negotiating on their behalf. Now she does not even give her real name on the Professional Cabin Crew Council website and is too scared to try to go on a recruiting drive.

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