The "Socialist Worker online" has accused British Airways of setting up a false Union to encourage cabin crew to vote "No" in the current Ballot to decide whether they should take strike action.
The report says that the “Professional Cabin Crew Council” (PCCC) has emailed cabin crew telling them to vote no and that the workers’ Union, Unite, believes that British Airways is directly funding the council and the action that it is taking.
If this is true, along with stories of non-cabin staff being trained to replace missing staff on board aircraft during a strike and the threat of the withdrawal of flight concessions from striking staff, then the implication is that BA are provisioning for an all out war, rather than taking a reconciliatory approach to the ongoing negotiations.
On the other hand, these actions could be seen as justified in that BA are in dire financial straits; cannot afford a possible terminally damaging strike and the Unions showed no mercy with their original Strike 1, 12 days of Christmas action plan.
Somewhere, someone, somehow needs to find some common ground before all parties suffer the consequences of severe passenger disruption and discontent.
If this is true, along with stories of non-cabin staff being trained to replace missing staff on board aircraft during a strike and the threat of the withdrawal of flight concessions from striking staff, then the implication is that BA are provisioning for an all out war, rather than taking a reconciliatory approach to the ongoing negotiations.
On the other hand, these actions could be seen as justified in that BA are in dire financial straits; cannot afford a possible terminally damaging strike and the Unions showed no mercy with their original Strike 1, 12 days of Christmas action plan.
Somewhere, someone, somehow needs to find some common ground before all parties suffer the consequences of severe passenger disruption and discontent.
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