This week’s ski poll – BA workers – are they right to strike?
18 December 2009
One Comment
BA workers voted overwhelmingly for a strike
With the BA strike not going ahead, holidaymakers this Christmas and New Year can breathe a HUGE sigh of relief. The airline took the case to court in order to “protect customers from the massive stress and disruption” which had been planned for 12 days between 22nd December and 2nd January. BA pointed out that Unite, the union representing cabin staff, had failed to take into account 1,000 of the 12,500 who had voted in the strike ballot had since left the company. But were they right to vote for a strike in the first place? Let us know your thoughts and cast your vote in our poll after the break.
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BA are creating a two tier labour force, with new starters on a lower basic saly and different bonus system. A lot of the present staff bunus remuneration depends on the routes they fly and BA are putting the lower tier labour on the more lucrative routes and so backhandedly depriving the higher tier labour of income.
This is life but I have a lot of sympathy with the staff over the underhanded way BA are dealing with them.
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