{"id":285151,"date":"2011-03-28T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/british-airways-cabin-crew-vote-to-strike-again\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T10:44:00","slug":"british-airways-cabin-crew-vote-to-strike-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/british-airways-cabin-crew-vote-to-strike-again\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways Cabin Crew Vote to Strike Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nHere we go again. Unite union, which represents British Airways cabin crew workers, announced Monday it has voted for more strikes against the airline.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNearly 83 percent of the 10,000 crew members polled voted in favor of walking off the job sometime in 2011.&nbsp; This marks the fourth official strike by the union in the two year ugly battle between the two sides.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nStanding strong against the carrier, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said, &quot;This vote shows that cabin crew remain determined to win justice.&quot; However McCluskey added their side is open to talking further in order to avoid strikes and to end this dispute once and for all.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe ballots were filled out by 6,985 employees, with 5,811 in favor of strikes (four of those votes were later marked invalid) and 1,170 against action. <span>Unite now has 28 days to announce the strike dates and must give British Airways at least a week&#39;s notice before walking off the job.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Here we go again. Unite union, which represents British Airways cabin crew workers, announced Monday it has voted for more strikes against the airline.&nbsp; &nbsp; Nearly 83 percent of the 10,000 crew members polled voted in favor of walking off the job sometime in 2011.&nbsp; This marks the fourth official strike by the union [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}