BA ask former cabin crew to help cover strike
10.02.10
BA has approached former cabin crew released last year to offer them temporary contracts as strike cover if current cabin crew vote for industrial action, the Times reports today. The former staff have been offered 6 month contracts worth £1,000 a month plus £2.40 an hour flying allowance.
The newspaper reports that BA has told the former cabin crew that retraining would take a week with courses starting from February 22. Unite, the union that represents about 12,000 BA cabin crew, is balloting on possible industrial action in a dispute over changes to working practice and pay cuts, with a result to be announced on February 22, and the earliest strike date one week later, so the dates seem to fit.
A spokesman for BA told the Times: ‘Talks with Unite continue and we want to reach a negotiated settlement. However, we are offering former BA cabin crew the chance to come back in the event of Unite calling a strike. Many who worked for us during 2009 on temporary contracts have made contact with us since Unite announced its second ballot. We’re pleased to be able to offer them short-term contracts to help us keep flying as much as possible should a strike go ahead.’
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