BRITISH AIRWAYS
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Unite accused British Airways of seeking to ‘punish’ workers on ‘poverty pay’ on July 1 as mixed fleet cabin crew geared up for the start of a 16- day strike over pay and the sanctioning of striking workers.
The strike is the latest in a long- running dispute involving members of British Airways’ ‘mixed fleet’ cabin crew working on short and long haul flights out of Heathrow. The 16-day strike has forced British Airways to cancel flights and apply for permission from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to ‘wet lease’ nine Qatar Airways aircraft.
Responding to threats of sanctions against striking cabin crew, Unite warned British Airways that it would leave no legal stone unturned to defend its members in the face of the airline’s corporate bullying.
Unite is already pursuing legal action on behalf of mixed fleet cabin crew who were previously sanctioned for taking strike action in the long- running dispute over ‘poverty pay’, which has so far seen 26 days of strike action this year.
Central to the claims is the accusation that British Airways has formed a
blacklist to impose sanctions on striking cabin crew.
Commenting Unite national officer Oliver Richardson said, “Vindictive threats from British Airways amount to corporate bullying from an airline more interested in punishing workers on poverty pay than addressing why cabin crew have been striking.
“Customers will take a dim view and a great British brand risks being further tarnished. We call on British Airways to drop the threats and drop the sanctions and resolve this long- running dispute.”
ATOMIC WEAPONS ESTABLISHMENT Twelve more days
In June Workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – voted to hold 12 more days of strike action, running into September, in their long-running pensions’ dispute.
The AWE workforce produces the warheads for Trident submarines and since the dispute started last autumn the dispute has caused ‘serious disruption’ to the nuclear programme.
This new tally of strike days running from July to September will bring the
total to 30 since it began last November.
The dispute centres on copper- bottomed pledges made in the early 1990s by the then-Tory government to AWE workers regarding the future of their pensions, once they transferred to the private sector. These promises have now been broken.
“Members’ resolution has been further strengthened by figures that show the AWE consortium has chalked up
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£804m in profits between 2000- 2015,” said Unite regional officer Bob Middleton.
“That’s more than £50m a year. The Tories bang on about the importance of the Trident programme to the UK’s defence, yet they seem blithely unconcerned about the retirement incomes of the workers that are instrumental in the production programme.”
The dispute continues.
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Mark Thomas
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