Action comes at start school half-term holidays, Unite union threatening another walkout June
British Airways cabin crew today began another five-day strike, with airline claiming action was increasingly ineffective and Unite union accusing management failing settle dispute.
The strike comes at the start the school half-term holidays, Unite has threatened that it will be followed another, beginning 5 June.
Unite said it would suspend the action BA reversed its decision strip strikers travel perks. Talks between the two sides ended, without any settlement, on Friday.
BA said dispute, which has already seen seven days industrial action March and a five-day strike that ended Friday, had cost it £84m. But it said effect this strike would reduced, with more cabin crew reporting duty.
It added that flights from Gatwick City airports would operate normally, Heathrow bearing the brunt of disruption.
Derek Simpson, the Unite joint leader, said BA’s chief executive, Willie Walsh, was being “unreasonable” offered to conduct fresh talks, in front the cameras, which he claimed would expose managerial intransigence.
“He has refused to reinstate travel concessions full despite Unite making it clear that the union would suspend the strike he did so,” Simpson told the BBC. “It would cost BA nothing to reinstate these travel concessions, yet Willie Walsh prepared to see the strike continue, putting the travel plans thousands passengers at risk costing BA over £100m over the course this dispute. “Unite have made it absolutely clear that we remain available at any time, day or night, to meet again with the company.” He claimed Walsh ended talks Friday saying he would meet again – but only after Unite’s annual conference, which opens Manchester Tuesday continues until the end the current strike.
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