Gate Gourmet, Venezuela, Lost

Interesting how on yesterday's BBC News 24, the correspondent reporting on the Venezuelan air crash nearly slipped in a big pile of news dung when he was asked about reports that all the passengers were French. As all the passengers were from Martinique, which is a department of France, they were all French. The journalist seemed on the verge of explaining how the passengers weren't really proper French citizens, but then wisely shut his trap.

The Gate Gourmet strike talks collapsed yesterday after memos from last year were leaked, some containing evidence that the management of the company had put in place a plan to antagonise employees until they went on illegal strike, and then sack them. This revelation, along with numerous other allegations about the company's behaviour (including one which claimed that low-level workers were promoted to management roles and then fired immediately - allowing the company to claim it was cutting back on the number of managers) - have totally vindicated all the people involved in the original strike, and the BA workers who struck out of solidarity for them.

Vindaloo tonight, accompanied by some Penedès Cabernet Sauvignon and two episodes of Lost. Quite enjoying that, actually. It's almost soothed the pain (shame?) I still feel when I think about how much I enjoyed Point Pleasant, even when everyone else thought it was crap, and then it was pulled :-((((

Share This
August 17, 2005 | Filed Under UK 

Comments

Leave a Reply




Close
E-mail It