Union bosses hit out at BA ‘macho management’
Tuesday, 16 Dec, 2009
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The boss of the cabin crew union embroiled in a dispute with British Airways, which is set to ground flights for 12 days over Christmas, has hit out at the airline’s ‘macho management’.
Unite union joint general secretaries Tony Woodley and Derek Simpson said Christmas travel on BA is being “held hostage by a macho management which prefers imposition and confrontation, or even litigation, to negotiation”.
The claims come despite BA chief executive Willie Walsh saying he is prepared to meet the union at any time to resolve the dispute while also seeking a legal injunction in an attempt to prevent the strike.
The union bosses said: “Last Friday we offered to suspend any industrial action and declare a ‘pause for peace’ if the company would only agree to suspend its imposition of new terms and conditions on cabin crew.
“Willie Walsh turned this offer down flat. Confrontation, not negotiation, is his approach, even though an industrial dispute will cost the company vastly more money than his projected savings from attacking cabin crew conditions.”
They added: “If British Airways want to get Christmas back on schedule, and values its relations with its own core employees, it will now take up our offer – suspend the imposition of contractual changes and we will suspend the strike.
“That is the choice – a pause for peace or madhouse macho management.”
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Phil Davies
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