BA crew urged to call off strike plan
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March 15, 2010, Monday
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BRITISH Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis urged cabin crew at British Airways yesterday to call off their planned strikes this month, saying it threatened the company's very existence.
Cabin crew are due to walk out for seven days this month after talks between the airline and unions on changes to working practices broke down. Analysts say the dispute could cost the airline around 140 million pounds (US$212 million).
Asked if the strike put the future of British Airways in danger, Adonis told the BBC: "Yes I do ... The stakes are incredibly high in this strike."
"It is not only the damage it is going to do to passengers and the inconvenience it is going to cause, which is quite disproportionate to the issues at stake, but also the threat it poses to the future of one of our great companies."
The planned strike would "threaten the very existence of British Airways," he said.
The Unite union said on Friday its members would strike for three days from March 20 and for four days from March 27. BA removed a formal offer made to staff on Thursday, saying it had been conditional on Unite not naming any strike dates.
Adonis said the strike would be deeply damaging to the economy and could threaten the jobs of the union's members.
"They (the union) should call off this strike. They should get back into negotiations with British Airways again. They came very, very close to an agreement last week, so close that I believe that if they could continue these negotiations in a constructive way it would be possible to call this strike off," he said.
Cabin crew are due to walk out for seven days this month after talks between the airline and unions on changes to working practices broke down. Analysts say the dispute could cost the airline around 140 million pounds (US$212 million).
Asked if the strike put the future of British Airways in danger, Adonis told the BBC: "Yes I do ... The stakes are incredibly high in this strike."
"It is not only the damage it is going to do to passengers and the inconvenience it is going to cause, which is quite disproportionate to the issues at stake, but also the threat it poses to the future of one of our great companies."
The planned strike would "threaten the very existence of British Airways," he said.
The Unite union said on Friday its members would strike for three days from March 20 and for four days from March 27. BA removed a formal offer made to staff on Thursday, saying it had been conditional on Unite not naming any strike dates.
Adonis said the strike would be deeply damaging to the economy and could threaten the jobs of the union's members.
"They (the union) should call off this strike. They should get back into negotiations with British Airways again. They came very, very close to an agreement last week, so close that I believe that if they could continue these negotiations in a constructive way it would be possible to call this strike off," he said.
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