{"id":97167527,"date":"2010-08-17T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/baa-strike-averted-major-u-k-airports-will-remain-open\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T09:11:00","slug":"baa-strike-averted-major-u-k-airports-will-remain-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/baa-strike-averted-major-u-k-airports-will-remain-open\/","title":{"rendered":"BAA Strike Averted, Major U.K. Airports Will Remain Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nUnite union announced Tuesday that it has accepted a pay increase from BAA that will avert strikes at six U.K. airports, including London Heathrow.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn what Unite called a &quot;much improved&quot; offer by BAA, the union representatives stated they will recommend workers take the new deal when it is offered to them via a ballot according to Bloomberg News.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUnite hinted at the possibility of a strike if a new deal had not been provided which offered more than a 1 percent pay increase. The union strongly believed their employees deserved to be paid more after agreeing to a pay freeze last year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;We are pleased with the outcome,&quot; Brendan Gold, Unite&#39;s national<br \/>\nsecretary for civil aviation, told Bloomberg News. &quot;We dealt with some<br \/>\nof the key issues that we had been looking to discuss with BAA for many<br \/>\nmonths.&quot;<\/p>\n<div id=\"tempSelBlock\" style=\"border: medium none; overflow: hidden; color: #000000; text-decoration: none; text-align: left; background-color: transparent\">\n\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-08-16\/heathrow-strike-called-off-after-baa-workers-union-receives-new-pay-offer.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Bloomberg&nbsp;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite union announced Tuesday that it has accepted a pay increase from BAA that will avert strikes at six U.K. airports, including London Heathrow.&nbsp; &nbsp; In what Unite called a &quot;much improved&quot; offer by BAA, the union representatives stated they will recommend workers take the new deal when it is offered to them via 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-97167527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167527","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=97167527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}