Fresh Strike Ballot Dates Announced

Unite have announced their latest ballot dates for strike action of BA workers, the ballot will take place between 21st December and 21st January. The long running feud between BA and Unite appeared to be over in October when talks looked to be nearing a conclusion.

But a deal that BA say Unite have reneged on now looks to be lost, BA stated that Unites’s behaviour was dysfunctional and if a strike does take place its services at Gatwick and London airports will be unaffected and all long haul services at Heathrow would remain in place.

Unite claim there are 5 issues it has with BA, the first is the travel concessions removed from striking workers, second is binding arbitration on disciplinary cases for striking members, the third is repayment of docked wages from crew members who were genuinely off sick during previous strikes, fourth on the list full and proper discussion of the trade union facilities agreement at the company and finally they want to prevent BA from imposing wage reductions.