{"id":6111,"date":"2010-06-09T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/british-airways-union-to-vote-on-strike\/"},"modified":"2010-06-09T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T09:36:00","slug":"british-airways-union-to-vote-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/british-airways-union-to-vote-on-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways Union to Vote on Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 450px; height: 340px\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2010\/6\/britishairwaysstrike2.jpg\" alt=\"British Airways strike to be refreshed (Image: Wikimedia)\" title=\"British Airways strike to be refreshed (Image: Wikimedia)\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>British Airways Union will vote to refresh strike mandate<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe cabin-crew union of British Airways said it will survey members on further strike action; the timing of the vote is the only issue to be resolved.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUnite&rsquo;s national officer for aviation stated today that the balloting will be taking place after a proper timeline is decided.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe last five-day walkout by 12,000 flight attendants at Europe&rsquo;s third-biggest carrier ends today and the union is legally bound to refresh its strike mandate to continue the action.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nToday included, crews have stopped work on 22 days since March 20 in their dispute over staffing levels and wage bills.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBeyond contract terms, the ballot will concern the airline&rsquo;s removal of travel perks for striking workers and disciplinary actions during the clash.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe union approximates that the strike costs the airline as much as $10 million a day.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-06-09\/british-airways-union-says-crews-to-vote-on-strikes-update1-.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em> Bloomberg Businessweek<\/em> <\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; British Airways Union will vote to refresh strike mandate &nbsp; The cabin-crew union of British Airways said it will survey members on further strike action; the timing of the vote is the only issue to be resolved. &nbsp; Unite&rsquo;s national officer for aviation stated today that the balloting will be taking place after a [&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-6111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111","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=6111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}