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Fighting back at British Airways – airline
warned Walsh's slash and burn strategy could destroy the
company
Unite cabin crew members at British Airways
recognise the pressures facing the company in the midst of the
current economic crisis. Negotiations have been going on for over a
year, but despite cabin crew being asked to make the heftiest
sacrifices of all, British Airways continues to provoke cabin crew
by imposing changes and refusing to negotiate openly and
fairly.
LATEST NEWS
- Unite response to comments by Lord Adonis,
14 March 2010.
BA cabin crew offered changes to pay and working practices
that would have made savings of more than £100 million for British
Airways, but the company rejected these proposals and repeatedly
walked away from talks while introducing provocative changes.
Cabin crew are the customers’ closest contact with the airline,
does British Airways really want to change from being the world’s
greatest airline to the world’s most basic airline?
The latest provocation came when the company called for ‘strike
breakers’ to stand in for crew during a strike. Find out more on
the campaign, see the latest news
updates.
Background
Unite has denounced BA's attempt to impose significant
contractural changes on its cabin crew employees, and introduce a
second tier workforce on poorer pay and conditions.
Unite believes the new contractural changes are an attempt to
force staff to pay the price for management failings with the
company wringing more and more out of fewer and fewer staff who
will be paid less.
Working hours will be extended, crew levels will be slashed,
career opportunities will disappear and new starters will be
brought in on bargain basement wages. Unite says this will
inevitably damage customer service and hit the brand, possibly
leaving it beyond repair.
Read the full background article from the
October/November 2009 edition of Unite's Workplace
Reporter: BA warned to back
off
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