BA cabin crew to vote on industrial action
A ballot over industrial action in protest of a new performance scheme for BA cabin crew opens on Thursday.
About 8,800 BA cabin crew will be voting in the ballot over the new scheme, which the union Unite describes as ‘bureaucratic’ and which has prompted fears over future job losses.
Members of the British Airlines Stewards and Stewardesses Association (BASSA), a section of Unite, will be voting for industrial action short of a strike in a bid to get management to suspend the introduction of the Dashboard Performance Management scheme.
The ballot for the Eurofleet and Worldwide Fleet cabin crew, based at Heathrow airport, will open on Thursday, July 21 and will close on Wednesday, August 17.
A consultative ballot has already shown that 94% of BASSA members supported some form of industrial action.
Unite called for the suspension of the performance scheme so that meaningful consultations can take place, with guarantees over job security.
Unite regional officer Matt Smith said: "A perfectly adequate performance management policy already exists.
"Our members have already overwhelmingly indicated they want this Dashboard system suspended until their worst fears have been allayed through meaningful consultation, with guarantees over job security.
"In its current form this new Dashboard system means, as an employee, you are constantly given red, green, and possibly amber based on a never ending ‘continual improvement’ score which, we believe, eventually year-on-year will become impossible to achieve.
"This would then give the BA management an excuse to get rid of dedicated long-serving staff.
"Our members would prefer to spend their time doing what they do best, which is giving the best service possible while ensuring the safety of BA customers."
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