http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1252 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:03:53 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1252#post-3284 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:34:11 +0000 Catch25 3284@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Journalists and TV commentators were delighted as new statistics became available when British Airways and the Unite union released cabin crew numbers on the same day. BA announced that 50% were working at the same time as Unite revealed that 80% were on strike. ‘That makes 130%, so maybe there are too many of them’ said one television expert.</p> <p>He explained that it had previously been impossible to find out exactly how many there were, as there had never been a simultaneous count of those on duty, on holiday, on sick leave, on disciplinary suspension, in the bar in Hong Kong or by the swimming pool in Barbados. </p>