Airline pilots’ strike
Sir, — It seems incredible that 280 pilots should admit, through their spokesman, to being so eaten up with envy of those a step ahead of them in the promotion scale that they are unfit to fly., Are their eyes so green with jealousy that they might not recognise a red warning light on the instrument panel? If they are so vulnerable when the threat is only to their material advancement how safe would we be in their hands if a really serious crisis confronted them? Unfortunately our whole nation is sick with envy. Strikes over relativity pay and bigger and better “perks” are endemic. We are so blinded by greed that we cannot see the flashing lights warning us that very soon this country will be economically as well as morally bankrupt. Can we not work towards a society motivated by good will rather than envy, by co-oper-ation rather than one-up-manship? — Yours, etc., SYBIL M. WOODS, Purau. April 10, 1979. Sir, — I work in the kitchen of a geriatric hospital. In looking at the patients daily I am forced to face my own mortality. This causes me so much agony that unless the powers that be recognise this and pay me for this state of mind, I will be forced to strike. — Yours, etc., BETTY TAYLOR. April 10, 1979.
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Press, 12 April 1979, Page 16
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