Unite hints of fresh strike balloting for summer
Monday, 01 Jun, 2010
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Cabin crew union bosses have vowed that there will be summer disruption to thousands of British Airways flights.
Unite joint leader Tony Woodley said British Airways management needed to “learn some manners” and that his union members would not be bullied into returning to work. He suggested that fresh balloting was only a week or so away.
The news comes as Woodley travels from Manchester ,where the annual Unite conference is being held, to London to join conciliation talks hosted by ACAS.
No resolution seems in sight at the moment to the battle between cabin crew who want their travel perks reinstated and management who took them away after March walk-outs.
New balloting on industrial action in July looks imminent. Meanwhile British Airways is infuriating Unite by saying that more than 70% of long-haul and 55% of short-haul flights operated out of Heathrow on Sunday, thanks to strike breakers.
Mr Woodley said: ‘We will stand up to BA bullies – even if it means another strike. There is only one thing to do with bullies – that is stand up to them until they learn some manners.’
Dinah Hatch
Dinah
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