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BA: Fire The Strikers

1:06 pm, December 17th, 2009 : Liberalism

In an ideally capitalist society, British Airways would have fired all employees threatening to go on strike and hired new ones (from the former globespan employees, for instance).

But, at least the High Court in England has ruled against the union’s strike on technical grounds.

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