{"id":97167481,"date":"2010-08-31T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/yet-another-british-airways-strike-possible\/"},"modified":"2010-08-31T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T14:00:00","slug":"yet-another-british-airways-strike-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/yet-another-british-airways-strike-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another British Airways Strike Possible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2010\/8\/bastrike.jpg\" alt=\"British \nAirways facing another strike?\" title=\"British Airways facing another strike?\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>BA to face another strike? <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn Tuesday, trade union Unite declared that up to 80 staff of British Airways have been suspended or let go as a result of the dispute over working practices. The announcement comes days before the union, which represents cabin crew, wrote to members telling them it may be balloting for another strike.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA spokesperson of Unite said Tuesday that as many as 13 cabin crew had been fired and the remainder suspended over incidents relating to the dispute that lasted around 19 months.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe spokesperson said two additional staff members had been suspended over the weekend, including one for being intoxicated with alcohol, even though he &ldquo;tested negative&rdquo;.&nbsp; A spokesperson from British Airways declined to comment on the disciplinary issue.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703467004575463242911461322.html\" target=\"_blank\"> The Wall Street Journal <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; BA to face another strike? &nbsp; &nbsp; On Tuesday, trade union Unite declared that up to 80 staff of British Airways have been suspended or let go as a result of the dispute over working practices. The announcement comes days before the union, which represents cabin crew, wrote to members telling them it [&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-97167481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167481","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=97167481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}