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BA results better than expected: End war against cabin crew, Unite urges
BA results better than expected: End war against cabin crew, Unite urges08-Feb-2010 |
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Tags :UK, British Airways With British Airways returning better than anticipated third quarter figures, Unite the union has again urged the airline to stop warring with its cabin crew and concentrate on building for the future. BA has announced a smaller that expected loss of £50 million over the past three months, returning a marginal operating profit. Unite says that the figures show very early signs that recovery is within the airline's grasp, but this will be hampered if BA persists with its aggressive attacks on a key workforce, its cabin crew. Len McCluskey, Unite assistant general secretary, said: "These figures give some cause to believe that BA is over the worst. They also throw into question BA's repeated assertion that this is an airline in peril. "While BA is not out of the woods yet, it is turning the corner. This ought to make it more flexible in reaching a negotiated settlement with its cabin crew. "We have said all along that the way forward on the dispute with crew is not through litigation or imposition, but by agreeing a lasting, negotiated solution. So again we urge BA to end the war it is waging against its 13,000 cabin crew because management by imposition will cost the airline customers and a damaged brand. It must stop." In Spring 2009, Unite and the cabin crew proposed cost-saving measures which could have returned, by BA's own estimates, around £60 million to the business. This contrasts sharply with the £31 million which the company claims to have saved by imposing a reduction in crew numbers last November, an action which forced Unite to ballot its 12,000 plus cabin crew members.
(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 08-Feb-10
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