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Tempted to ask for that extra in-flight pillow? Or rant about a flight delay? Tread carefully: your airline's staff may just be working for free. British Airways recently asked its 40,000 employees to consider laboring for nothing for up to one month. "Colleagues are being urged to help the airline's cash-saving drive by signing up for unpaid leave or unpaid work," read an article in BA News, the carrier's in-house newspaper. Chief executive Willie Walsh, who has pledged to forgo his $100,000 monthly salary in July, said the airline was caught...
...have been shelved. Unpaid leave and temporary or permanent part-time work, meanwhile, have been on the table since last month. And talks with unions are continuing over how to squeeze staff costs still further - BA's head count has already fallen by 2,500 since last summer. (Read "British Airways: Cabin Pressure...
...Read "British Airways Charged Stiff Fines...
...front-runner to become the E.U.'s first president, continues to insist he made the right call. "It was right to remove Saddam. It was right to give the country a chance to have the democratic process," he told an interviewer a month before he stepped down as British Prime Minister in June 2007, fatally weakened by public anger over Iraq. (See pictures of the Bush-Blair friendship...
...gives power to whomsoever he chooses and he also takes it away." That's the resonant Koranic inscription around the cupola of Basra Palace, one of many lavish residences Saddam commissioned for himself. Whatever the Iraq-war inquiry discovers, it's on the streets of Basra, which was under British control until this spring, that Britain's legacy will finally be judged. Earlier this year, a Basrawi policeman on sentry duty outside the palace told TIME of his optimism for the future. "For the first time in our history, we're allowed a diversity of opinions," he said. But asked...