British Airways (BA) Strike News

After two consecutive weekends of strikes and lots of name-calling and mud-slinging back and forth…the battle between British Airways and the Unite union still hasn’t been resolved. According to the Wall Street Journal, CEO Executive Willie Walsh said on Wednesday that striking cabin crew and Unite have failed in their efforts to ground the airline, though there remains the risk of further industrial action in April.BA and Unite have been battling for the past year over how to save the airline money. In an advertisement that appeared Wednesday in British national newspapers, Walsh said the union had failed to ground the airline in March by taking industrial action, adding the carrier still managed to fly during the strike period over 80 percent of the customers who originally had booked with BA as 60 percent of cabin crew ignored the strike call.Walsh has called on Unite to allow its members to vote on the current offer, which was tabled before strikes began. No one at Unite was immediately available to comment. Read more…

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The chief executive of British Airways has appealed for more volunteer cabin crew in the event of further strikes, Sky News has learned.

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The chief executive of British Airways has appealed for more volunteer cabin crew workers in the event of further strikes, according to Sky sources.

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The chief executive of British Airways has appealed for more volunteer cabin crew for next strikes, Sky sources have said.

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British Airways’ Willie Walsh said striking cabin crew and the union Unite have failed in their efforts to ground the airline. Meanwhile, Lufthansa called on its pilots to cancel a planned four-day strike.

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U.K. carrier British Airways and Spain’s Iberia failed to sign a definitive merger deal by their self-imposed deadline.

See more here: BA, Iberia Miss Merger Deadline

Unite, the union behind the strike by BA cabin crew, has vowed to press on with industrial action next weekend unless the airline bows down to its demands.Passengers are currently enduring their third day of travel misery due to the BA strike over pay and working conditions, with no end in sight to the bitter industrial dispute.

Source: http://news.cheapflights.co.uk/2010/03/second-weekend-of-ba-strikes-to-go-ahead/