Blue skies, zero wages?
Whoever it was that said capitalism has reached the limits of ‘innovation’ should be asked to think again. We can be sure that in an effort to reduce the impact of the economic crisis on their own pockets, the capitalist classes and their teams of blue-sky thinkers will be cooking up ways to make workers pay for their excesses. If proof be needed, just take a look at British Airways. BA Chief Exec Willie Walsh is urging the airlines’ 30,000 workers to take a whole month’s pay ‘holiday’. In return for not being able to feed themselves, BA workers can play a part in their employers “survival”...